Attorney George Conway is reacting to the overnight news Donald Trump is countersuing journalist E. Jean Carroll for defamation, after a jur
Attorney George Conway is reacting to the overnight news Donald Trump is countersuing journalist E. Jean Carroll for defamation, after a jury in a civil trial found the ex-president liable for defaming and sexually abusing her. The jury did not find he committed rape.
Trump is suing Carroll, claiming her post-verdict remarks are defamatory.
“Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared on CNN the morning after the jury awarded her $5 million in damages,” CNN reports. “Carroll was asked about the verdict finding Trump sexually abused Carroll but did not rape her as she alleged. Carroll said, ‘Oh, yes he did.'”
E. Jean Carroll’s attorney, the famed Robbie Kaplan, issued a statement criticizing Trump.
“Donald Trump again argues, contrary to both logic and fact, that he was exonerated by a jury that found that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll,” she said, CNN reported. “Trump’s filing is thus nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability for what a jury has already found to be his defamation of E. Jean Carroll. But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming very soon.”
