E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer responds to Trump Memorial Day post: ‘All options are on the table’
Published Mon, May 27 20247:31 PM EDTUpdated An Hour Ago
Micah Washington
Donald Trump again denied rape and defamation claims against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, getting the attention of her lawyer with his Memorial Day post on Truth Social.
“We have said several times since the last jury verdict in January that all options were on the table,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said, responding to the post. “And that remains true today — all options are on the table.”
Donald Trump on Monday again denied rape and defamation claims against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, getting the attention of her lawyer.
In a post on Truth Social, the former president began with “Happy Memorial Day to All” and quickly derailed into a tirade against Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s claims: “TWO separate trials that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn’t count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for ‘DEFAMATION.’”
Kaplan presided over the case in which a jury in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Kaplan later ruled in the civil defamation case in January that as president Trump defamed Carroll after she accused him in 2019 of rape. Carroll was awarded $83.3 million in damages, which Trump is appealing.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/27/e-jean-carrolls-lawyer-responds-to-trump-memorial-day-post.html Kaplan has already suggested that a third defamation lawsuit could be in store after comments Trump made in a CNBC interview in March.
