E. Jean Carroll allowed to amend defamation case seeking more damages against Trump after CNN event

A Federal judge on Tuesday announced the approval of E. Jean Carroll’s request to amend her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump to include additional comments the former president made at last month’s town hall, CNN reports.

Trump made disparaging comments about Carroll during the May 11 town hall hosted by CNN, saying “What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes, you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room, okay?”

Trump’s comments came in the aftermath of a civil sexual assault and defamation case in which the advice columnist won a $5 million judgement against the former president.

The Washington Post reports that “The lawsuit was originally filed over comments Trump made about Carroll in 2019, when he was president and she had first publicly accused him of a decades-old sexual assault.The lawsuit has been delayed by appellate litigation having to do with whether Trump is shielded from liability because he was president at the time he made those comments.”

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