On the day that he was arraigned on charges in a Miami courtroom, former President Donald J. Trump got more bad news, this time from New York City where a federal judge allowed vindictive rape accuser E. Jean Carroll to amend her lawsuit against him to extract even more money than she was already awarded by a jury.
Carroll, who last month was awarded $5 million by a jury drawn from a local pool in a deep blue city filled with people who despise the ex-POTUS, sought permission to amend a second lawsuit against Trump to include comments that he made about her during CNN’s infamous town hall and on Tuesday, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan gave her the green light to do so.
The amended lawsuit is separate from the one in which her extremely sketchy rape accusation was rejected, with it being previously reported that the filing sought “very substantial” damages and that his remarks in the nationally televised event “show the depth of his malice toward Carroll, since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite.”
During the town hall, which backfired so badly on CNN that it likely cost now-former CEO Chris Licht his job, Trump told the cheering crowd at New Hampshire’s St. Anselm College that the “whack job” author and advice columnist gave her cat a vulgar sexual nickname referring to a woman’s private parts and suggested that she may be a racist toward her own husband who is black and whom he said she referred to as “an ape.”
Donald Trump, accused of sexual misconduct by over two dozen women, responds to being held liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll by bragging about poll numbers and attacking the judge:
“Her dog, or her cat, was named Vagina. The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in.” pic.twitter.com/jDf0hjBwfW
— The Recount (@therecount) May 11, 2023
“I don’t know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is. I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband. Nice guy, Johnson. He was a newscaster, very nice man. She called him an ape. Happens to be African American. Called him an ape,” Trump said, leaving open the possibility that Carroll is a racist.
“The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in. Her dog or her cat was named ‘Vagina.’ The judge wouldn’t allow to put that in all of these things. But with her, they could put in anything. Access Hollywood,” he added.
Roberta A. Kaplan, who is Carroll’s attorney said, “We look forward to moving ahead expeditiously on E. Jean Carroll’s remaining claims,” according to The New York Times.
“We maintain that she should not be permitted to retroactively change her legal theory, at the 11th hour, to avoid the consequences of an adverse finding against her,” Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba, said.
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