Writer E. Jean Carroll, fresh off her victory in a defamation suit against former President Donald Trump that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation, is moving for another defamation suit after the former president mocked her rape accusations against him on a CNN town hall in New Hampshire.
Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Monday, conservative "Never Trump" attorney George Conway explained why Carroll's new case is compelling.
"I know you had talked to her at some point about the case," said Hayes. "You are invoked in closing arguments as a sort of bogeyman that was behind the thing. It seemed eminently predictable that CNN was going to be hosting defamation when they had him on a day after this. He then proceeded to say things about her that are very similar to what he said, that got him found guilty of defamation. Do you think this is a strong case, and what does it mean?"
Conway agreed, saying that it would likely add to punitive damages in her previous 2019 case.
"The complaint that she's been amending this time was actually the original complaint from the first lawsuit that she brought in 2019, when President Trump, as president, from the bully pulpit of the Oval Office, denied that anything ever happened at Bergdorf Goodman, and basically accused her of being a liar. And she got $3 million for the second libel, in 2022, when he was dumb enough to repeat the first libel. And that time, he wasn't president, so he didn't have this legal argument. That's why the first case went off on a wild goose chase in the appellate court, and now, it's come back."
Furthermore, Conway continued, "That case already had more damage potential than the case that she already won ... because he was president at the time."
"It was the very, very first libel that he made on E. Jean Carroll. And now the fact that he has repeated the libel after being found to have sexually abused her is really, really outrageous," said Conway. "And it is supportive of punitive damages. This verdict could be greater than the $5 million that she got in the first place. Frankly, I hope it is, because I think, at some point, he's got to stop lying about this and stop lying about her. How many times we're gonna have to go through this?"
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