Judge dismisses Trump's defamation lawsuit against Carroll for statements she made on CNN

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s counter defamation lawsuit against E. Jean Carroll, dealing another legal blow to the former president.

In an order Monday, Judge Lewis Kaplan said that Trump had not proven that Carroll’s statements on CNN the day after the jury awarded her $5 million after finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her were false or “not at least substantially true,” which is the legal standard.

Trump sued Carroll in June based on her response to questions posed on CNN. Carroll was asked about the verdict finding Trump sexually abused Carroll, but did not rape her as defined under New York law and as she alleged. Carroll said, “Oh, yes he did.”

In throwing out Trump’s lawsuit, the judge wrote, “Indeed, the jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis. Thus, it establishes against him the substantial truth of Ms Carroll’s ‘rape’ accusations.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/index.html

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[ificandream]

1. Add rapist to twice-impeached, three-times indicted, disgraced ex-president.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. What's that? The Losing Loser Loses Bigly, Again?

[onetexan]

3. Not again? 😅

[Marthe48]

4. Ms. Carroll should be Time's person of the year

She is one of the most courageous people in the world right now.

[republianmushroom]

5. Another lost, donald, but the big one is coming.

It is going to be prison time as a new member of the "Felon Club".