NEW YORK – A United States federal judge on Monday dismissed the defamation lawsuit that former President Donald Trump filed last June against the writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll, who a month earlier had won a civil lawsuit against him for sexual assault.
Trump had sued Carroll as a result of an interview he gave to CNN after the verdict in that case, in which, asked if the tycoon raped her, he assured: “Yes, he did.”
That jury ruling, which ordered Trump to pay $5 million in compensation for allegedly sexually abusing her years ago and then defaming her when she publicly denounced the facts, found him responsible for abuse, but not rape under the laws of NY.
Relying on that difference, the former US president sued Carroll, considering that he had made a false statement and that it harmed his image.
The judge, however, dismissed this maneuver on Monday, pointing out that the victim’s words are “substantially true”, since the jury determined that Trump penetrated her, even if it was with his fingers and not with his penis, as required for a charge. of rape under New York law.
Trump and Carroll will face each other again in court starting in January, in another defamation trial resulting from a lawsuit filed in 2019 by the writer and journalist, also linked to the sexual abuse she suffered in the mid-1990s.
In a separate order, Judge Kaplan ruled Monday that Carroll’s lawyers can turn over to Manhattan prosecutors a recording of a pretrial sworn statement Trump made before them.
Prosecutors will be able to use that video to prepare another trial, this time scheduled for March, in which the former president is accused of falsifying business documents in connection with an alleged 2016 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, a fourth investigation could also end in criminal charges. To see more from Telemundo, visit
