Writer E. Jean Carroll is moving forward with a second defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump after he doubled down on defamatory comments at CNN town hall – just a day after she won $5 million damages against him in a civil court.
Speaking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday, reporter Katelyn Polantz walked through the implications.
"She had the major lawsuit she won against Donald Trump where she was able to convince the jury he should be liable for sexual abuse and for defaming her about the interaction in the department store years ago," said Polantz.
"That lawsuit is over, and she got a big award out of it. A $5 million award from that jury that Donald Trump will have to pay her.
"This is about a very similar case that's still in the court system. It's about similar things he was saying about E. Jean Carroll during the time he was president and it was still going through the court system, and what E. Jean Carroll's lawyers are saying we want to beef up our case against him because of how Donald Trump responded to E. Jean Carroll after that jury verdict."
"So here is one of the things that Donald Trump said just a day after the jury in New York decided to award her many, many millions of dollars about what she was able to say he should be liable for," said Polantz. "Here's Trump at a town hall with CNN."
"They said 'he didn't rape her,' and I didn't do anything else because I don't know who the hell she is," said Trump in the clip, while calling Carroll a "whack job." The jury did find him liable for sexual abuse.
Polantz continued: "This other civil lawsuit, it's another thing that E. Jean Carroll is still pushing in court and trying ... to twist the knife and trying to convince the judge and not only should she win another defamation case about all of the things he's said about her and that he's demeaned her and he's denying abusing her still, and that maybe it should be considered what he was saying after that jury verdict."
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