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Trump may have talked himself into another lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll [1]
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Date: 2023-05-11
Carroll said she went to bed before Trump took the stage on CNN, but read a transcript of his comments provided by her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. She only needed to read one paragraph before recoiling in disgust.
“It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” Ms. Carroll said in an interview with The New York Times, adding that she had been “insulted by better people.” Ms. Carroll said she had been infuriated when her longtime stylist told her that her 15-year-old son was talking about what Mr. Trump had said. “I am upset on the behalf of young men in America,” Ms. Carroll said. “They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a cave-man view.”
Kaplan said that a fresh lawsuit hasn’t been ruled out—and a decision on that front should come very quickly.
On Thursday, Ms. Kaplan said no decision had been made on whether a new defamation suit would be filed in light of Mr. Trump’s latest comments. “Everything’s on the table, obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it,” Ms. Kaplan said. “We have to weigh the various pros and cons and we’ll come to a decision in the next day or so, probably.”
Oh, I hope Carroll does sue—and gets a chance to repeat the dose she gave Trump earlier this week. It would actually be the third time Carroll has sued Trump; her original suit from 2019 is still wending its way through the appeals process because Trump claims that any comments he made about her at the time were in his official capacity as president.
Past history suggests Carroll would have a considerable advantage at this trial. According to MSNBC’s Danny Cevallos, Carroll was swimming upstream until Kaplan deposed Trump for the first defamation suit. It was a litany of unforced errors—mistaking Carroll for Marla Maples, claiming neither Carroll nor Kaplan were his “type,” and defending the “Access Hollywood” tape. For that reason, Cevallos said that for all intents and purposes, Trump talked himself into coughing up $5 million. Expect more of the same if Trump is deposed again.
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