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107 Former Elle mag proposal columnist E. Jean Carroll watches arsenic Joe Tacopina, lawyer of erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump, makes closing arguments during a civilian proceedings wherever Carroll accuses Trump of raping her successful a section store dressing country successful the mid-1990s, and of defamation, successful New York, May 8, 2023.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
Donald Trump connected Thursday filed announcement that helium volition appeal this week's national civilian jury verdict holding the erstwhile president liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump's lawyers besides said successful that filing they volition inquire the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to flip retired the bid for him to wage $5 cardinal successful compensatory and punitive damages to Carroll successful the case.
Also connected Thursday, Carroll's lawyer told The New York Times that the writer was considering filing a caller defamation suit against Trump for saying the nighttime earlier connected a CNN municipality hallway that her assertion of being raped by him successful a dressing country of the Bergdorf Goodman section store successful the 1990s was "fake."
"We person to measurement the assorted pros and cons and we'll travel to a determination successful the adjacent time oregon so, probably," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told The Times.
If Carroll, 79, does record a caller suit, it would beryllium her 3rd defamation assertion against Trump.
The 2nd suit was resolved Tuesday erstwhile a assemblage successful U.S. District Court successful Manhattan aft little than 3 hours of deliberations recovered helium had sexually abused her, and besides had defamed her past fall.
The archetypal lawsuit, which alleges Trump defamed her erstwhile helium was president aft she went nationalist with her rape assertion successful 2019, has been efficaciously connected clasp pending ineligible arguments implicit whether helium tin beryllium held liable for comments made erstwhile helium served successful the White House.
Trump's announcement of entreaty was filed Thursday little than an hr aft the last judgment of the assemblage verdict was entered connected the Manhattan court's docket.
The assemblage connected Tuesday did not find determination was a preponderance of grounds Trump raped Carroll. But its uncovering that helium apt sexually abused her was capable to prolong her civilian assertion for battery.
Trump is the starring contender for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination.
Trump, during the New Hampshire municipality hallway hosted by CNN connected Wednesday night, mocked Carroll, drafting laughter and cheers from the audience. Trump called Carroll a "whack job" during the municipality hallway and again claimed her relationship of the events was "fake."
"She wasn't raped, OK?" Trump said. "And I didn't bash thing other either, OK, due to the fact that I don't cognize who the hellhole she is."
