E. Jean Carroll, previous U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, comes at Manhattan Federal Court docket for the continuation of the civil scenario, in New York Town, May well 9, 2023.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
A federal decide on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defamatory statements he made about the author E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went general public with statements he experienced raped her decades previously.
Decide Lewis Kaplan, as aspect of that ruling granting Carroll a partial summary judgment, stated the upcoming demo for her civil lawsuit versus Trump will only offer with the issue of how significantly the previous president need to pay out her in monetary damages.
The 25-page selection in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan is the most current major decline for Trump in suits submitted by Carroll.
In May well, a jury in the identical courtroom for a associated lawsuit identified that Trump experienced sexually abused Carroll for the duration of an face in a New York department retail outlet in the mid-1990s, and experienced defamed her very last fall in opinions that again denied her allegations.
Trump was purchased to pay out Carroll $5 million in damages in that scenario, which related to comments he built after he was president.
The accommodate that was the topic of Kaplan’s ruling Wednesday relates to statements about Carroll that Trump built when he was president as he denied her assert of rape.
Trial in the circumstance is set to commence on Jan. 15.
Legal professionals for Trump and Carroll did not promptly answer to requests for comment on Kaplan’s ruling.
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