Writer E. Jean Carroll leaving the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where former President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her on Sept. 6, 2024. Photo by Adam Gray/ Reuters

Every time Trump denies he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, he runs the risk she’ll sue again

Politics

Every time Donald Trump denies that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, he runs the risk she will sue him again for defamation.

Juries now have twice awarded Carroll huge sums for Trump claiming she made up a story about him attacking her in a department store dressing room in 1996 to help her sell a memoir.

But that hasn't stopped Trump from continuing to make nearly identical statements to reporters. At his news briefing Friday, he said again that Carroll was telling a "made-up, fabricated story."

Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, warned in March after a jury awarded Carroll another $83 million that she would continue to monitor Trump's comments and would consider suing again if he kept it up.

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