Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation over CNN comments, says that rape ‘clearly was not committed’ – By Marisa Sarnoff (Law and Crime) / June 28, 2023
Former President Donald Trump has accused the woman he was found to have sexually assaulted defamed him by insisting that he raped her.
In a counterclaim to E. Jean Carroll’s amended complaint in her defamation case against the former president, Trump said that her continued insistence that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s amounts to defamation. He specifically points to her statement in a May 10 CNN interview — one day after a federal jury unanimously found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed Carroll —where she was asked about the jury’s finding that he did not rape her.
“Oh yes he did,” Carroll said. “Oh yes he did.”
Trump’s filing notes the jury didn’t reach that same conclusion.
