US District Court docket Decide Lewis Kaplan dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation suit in opposition to writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday. Carroll has accused Trump of sexual assault, with a jury finding that Trump did sexually assault Carroll and defamed Carroll by accusing her of mendacity.
Trump claimed that Carroll’s statements on CNN after the decision have been false and defamatory as she assented to the allegation that he particularly “raped” Carroll as outlined below New York legislation. Nevertheless, the lawsuit from Could solely decided that he sexually assaulted her. Decide Kaplan rejected this argument and dismissed the swimsuit, saying Trump “fail[ed] plausibly to allege that Ms. Carroll’s statements weren’t true” and “Ms. Carroll’s allegedly defamatory statements have been considerably true as a matter of legislation.”
Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan told CNN, “We’re happy that the Court docket dismissed Donald Trump’s counterclaim.” Trump’s legal professional Alina Habba criticized the ruling, saying, “We strongly disagree with the flawed determination and will probably be submitting an attraction shortly.”
Whereas a verdict has been made within the lawsuit often called Carroll II, the unique defamation lawsuit filed by Carroll in 2019, often called Carroll I, continues to be ongoing. The jury trial within the authentic defamation swimsuit is scheduled for January 2024. Kaplan, acknowledged, “[T]he January fifteenth jury trial will probably be restricted to a slender set of points and shouldn’t take very lengthy to finish. E. Jean Carroll appears to be like ahead to acquiring further compensatory and punitive damages primarily based on the unique defamatory statements Donald Trump made in 2019.” Each of Carroll’s lawsuits accuse Trump of sexually assaulting her in a dressing room in New York Metropolis about 28 years in the past. Trump tried and didn’t obtain a mistrial in Carroll II and asserted a defense of immunity to no avail in Carroll I.
Carroll is just one of at the very least 26 women who’ve accused Trump of sexual assault, with accusations going again to the Nineteen Seventies. Trump has dismissed all of the allegations in opposition to him, asserting they’re largely politically motivated. Those that have accused Trump embrace Jessica Leads, Kristin Anderson, Jill Harth, Temple Taggart, Natasha Stoynoff and Summer Zervos amongst others. A number of accusations have come from ladies whom Trump labored with via his enterprise within the pageant world and on his TV present The Apprentice on NBC. The latest allegations come from Alva Johnson, a Trump marketing campaign staffer in 2016.
Trump can be dealing with legal authorized issues as he begins his 2024 run for president. Trump is dealing with federal criminal charges because of his involvement within the January 6th Capitol Riot and his accusations of fraud after the 2020 presidential election. He’s additionally dealing with extra federal charges in Florida in relation to the storage and retention of labeled paperwork. Trump was additionally indicted by a New York state grand jury in a falsified business records case associated to funds made to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to cowl an alleged affair. Trump continues to be topic to state grand jury proceedings in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election end in that state, and the grand jury will determine whether or not he will probably be criminally charged in Georgia.
