Hunter Biden’s attorney said Friday that Donald Trump will likely be forced to pay a huge amount of money to E. Jean Carroll — even more than the $5 million he's already been ordered to pay.
Bryan M. Sullivan told Newsweek Friday that the retired writer suing Trump — who has already been found liable for defamating her in a separate trial — will present a solid case to the jury next month, despite the former president’s best stalling efforts.
"E. Jean Carroll has a very strong case against Trump,” Sullivan told Newsweek, “and will likely lead to large punitive damages.”
In May, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages after a jury found he sexually abused her decades ago, then defamed her by denying it. That case is being appealed.
A second trial involving another allegation of defamation is set to start next month.
Sullivan’s prediction comes a day after a New York appeals court refused to delay the case that's slated to begin on Jan. 16, until the Supreme Court could hear his presidential immunity claims.
Carroll is seeking damages linked to Trump’s denials that he did not sexually assault her in a luxury department store in the 1990s because she was a "nut job" and not his "type."
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A U.S. District Court judge in September already ruled Trump was liable in that second defamation case, but the civil trial will decide damages.
Trump failed in an effort to challenge the $5 million payout in June.
Legal experts have echoed Sullivan’s suspicion that Trump will have to cough up a large amount of cash based on his billionaire bragging in his New York City civil fraud trial, which Carroll’s lawyers plan to introduce as evidence.
MSNBC analyst Lisa Rubin argued this could prove “problematic” for the former president, especially as she suspects his comments were off-the-cuff.
“Trump might have boasted about his wealth, understanding it could hurt him in Carroll’s case," Rubin wrote earlier this month.
"But my suspicion is that no one is holistically monitoring what Trump says."
