After a writer who had previously accused the former president of raping her claimed his rejection of the charges damaged her image, she filed a defamation case against him, which Donald Trump has dismissed as “a fraud and a falsehood.”
E. Jean Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, and a federal court yesterday rejected the former Republican leader’s attempt to halt the deposition scheduled for October 19.
Yesterday, Trump labeled the lawsuit a “total scam job” and claimed that E. Jean Carroll was a lady he had nothing to do with, hadn’t seen, and wouldn’t be interested in getting to know if given the opportunity. Trump’s comment was uploaded on Truth Social and sent straight to his followers.
In her autobiography, Carroll claimed that Trump had sexually assaulted her at a meeting in the middle of the 1990s at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan.
When Trump refuted her charges and questioned the motivations and authenticity of the longstanding advice columnist, she said that he had defamed her.
She entirely made up a narrative that I met her at the doors of this packed New York City department store and, within minutes, “swooned” her, the former president wrote in his venomous rant Friday night. Like all the previous hoaxes that have been perpetrated on me over the last seven years, it is a hoax and a lie. And even though I’m not allowed to, I will. I’m not the type for this lady.
After the federal court ordered that Trump be deposed on October 19, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba replied in a statement, saying: “We look forward to demonstrating on the record that this complaint is, and always has been, utterly without substance.”
Trump said in 2019 that E. Jean Carroll is “not my style” and that she invented the rape accusation in order to promote her book in The Hill.
Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, expressed her satisfaction with the judge’s decision to not stop discovery in the case to DailyMail.com. We are eager to file our claim under the Adult Survivors Act and go swiftly to trial.
The court criticized Trump’s attorneys for attempting to postpone the trial, a legal strategy the former president was known to use when in difficulty in his previous job as a real estate mogul.
To determine whether Trump’s allegedly defamatory remarks about Carroll were made while he was president, they deferred to the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals.
The Biden administration may take Trump’s place as the defendant in the case if the appeals court decides in Trump’s favor.
The Justice Department of President Joe Biden has persisted in supporting Trump’s assertion that the government should intervene.
Carroll’s attorney has already said that she intends to file a lawsuit against Trump under the Adult Survivors Act, which was signed into law by New York Governor Kathy Hochul in May and will go into effect in November.
Adult survivors of rape and sexual assault are granted a one-year “look back” period under the new law, allowing them to file civil lawsuits that would have otherwise run out of time.
If he follows through, Trump will be required to testify on his own behalf in a civil action for the second time this year on October 19.
When he was removed from office in August by Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, he allegedly used his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
Trump and his three oldest children met with James’ office to discuss a probe into the operations of their family’s real estate firm.
In September, the Democratic official filed a complaint against all four of them as well as the Trump Organization, charging them with intentionally using false financial statements.
Kaplan argued that the defendant shouldn’t be allowed to “run the clock out” on the plaintiff’s effort to get redress for what was apparently a grievous violation.
Trump’s legal actions in the matter, according to him, were ‘inexcusable.’
As this Court has already noted, Mr. Trump has been litigating this matter since it started in 2019 with the effect of prolonging it and undoubtedly with the intention of doing so, Kaplan said.
Trump’s legal team has attempted to defend him against the lawsuit by referencing a regulation that shields federal workers from defamation claims while performing official tasks.
Trump, as president, was recognized as a government employee last month by a three-judge court, giving him the authority to use the legislation.
Carroll said that she would ‘find it insulting’ to file charges against Trump in the MSNBC interview from Friday night.
I would think it insulting to the women who are being raped there without any protection all day long, she remarked. They are adolescent ladies.
It would be rude since the ladies there have very little protection.
“Mine was three minutes; I’m a strong, capable lady, and I can handle it,” she said. My life has continued, and I’m a happy lady.
“But for the ladies down there, and for the women truly all over the globe, in every culture this is going on, whether high or low in society it just seems insulting, it just doesn’t make sense to me,” she said.
Carroll is the 16th woman to accuse the president of sexual misconduct, and Trump would have been married to Marla Maples at the time Carroll made her allegations.
Tiffany, a girl, was his fourth kid, who had just been born in 1993.
Trump allegedly asked Carroll for assistance with a present as she was leaving the shop and directed her to the lingerie section.
She adds that he was attractive that day, saying, “I am amazed at how good-looking he is.” We’ve already met, and despite the gloomy lighting, he seems as attractive than ever.
Carroll attracted Trump’s attention by hosting a daily discussion program called Ask E Jean for Ailes’ America’s Talking cable network at the time.
Trump reportedly remarked, “Hey, you’re that advise woman!” Carroll reported this.
A request from the property developer, whose Trump Tower is only one block south of Bergdorf Goodman, is said to have come after that.
“Come counsel me. According to Carroll, who attempted to suggest a few suggestions in the store’s main foyer, Trump remarked, “I’ve got to purchase a gift.”
She inquired as to the age of the lady he was looking for after Trump had discarded them all, which prompted him to do the same.
She informed him that she was 52 at the time, two years older than Trump, and he reportedly laughed and added, “You’re so ancient.”
Carroll claims that he then remarked, “lingerie,” and the two went upstairs to that section.
When Carroll arrived, she alleges she attempted to defuse repeated requests for her to model one of the garments by suggesting Trump put them on in a close-by changing room.
The alleged attack allegedly occurred when they entered one of the rooms.
As soon as the dressing room door closes, he rushes at me, throws me against the wall, severely concussing me, and presses his kiss to my lips. Carroll says, “I am so astonished I push him back and start laughing again.”
As I realize how big he is, he grabs both of my arms again and forces me up against the wall. He then holds me against the wall with his shoulder, shoves his hand under my dress and pulls down my tights.
“I’m amazed by what I’m going to write: I keep giggling,” she continues. He opens the overcoat, unzips his trousers, and forces his fingers about my private region before pushing his penis partly — or entirely, I’m not sure — inside of me. He is still wearing proper work clothes at this point, with a shirt, tie, suit jacket, and overcoat.
Carroll said that before she was able to escape the changing room and leave the shop, she struggled with Trump.
She claimed to have told two friends about the alleged assault but did not report it to the police; she has kept the outfit ever since.
He raped you, stated the first speaker, who is not identified but is characterized as a “journalist, magazine writer, reporter on the TV morning programs, and author of several books.” He assaulted you. Consult the police! I’ll accompany you. I’ll accompany you.’
Tell no one, was the response from the second, a New York anchorwoman. Ignore it! He has 200 attorneys. He’ll inter you.
The pals were contacted by New York, who said that “both still vividly recall the encounter and verified their claims.”
Carroll also addressed the 25-year delay in telling her tale, outlining some of the factors that made her reluctant to do so.
The 15 women who have come forward with credible accounts of how the man grabbed, badgered, belittled, mauled, molested, and assaulted them, only to have the man turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack them, never sounded like much fun, Caroll said.
“Receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud, and joining the 15 women who have come forward with credible accounts of how the man grabbed,
I’m a coward, too.
Along with Jessica Leeds, Kristin Anderson, Jill Harth, Cathy Heller, Temple Taggart McDowell, Karena Virginia, Melinda McGillivray, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen, Summer Zervos, Juliet Huddy, Alva Johnson, and Cassandra Searles, she is now one of the accusers.
Given that she has been taking Hideous Men excursions around New York, where she makes a stop at Trump Tower, her choice to remain silent is quite unexpected.
Rockefeller Center and the Fox News studios are two more destinations.
Carroll, though, seemed to be most concerned about Trump since he was her “last terrible guy.”
Carroll admits, “The Donna Karan coat dress still sits on the inside of my wardrobe door, untouched and unwashed since that evening.
I’m not sure whether it’s my advanced age, the fact that I haven’t encountered somebody captivating enough in the previous several years to feel “the sap rising,” as Tom Wolfe described it, or the stain of the real estate magnate. However, I have never had intercourse with anybody else since.