E. Jean Carroll seeks ‘very substantial’ damages from Trump over CNN town hall comments

• E. Jean Carroll’s legal professionals have amended a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Trump 
• Claims remarks he made in CNN town hall present ‘malice’ towards Carroll 
• Trump claimed her allegations had been ‘faux’ and  referred to as her a ‘whack job’  

E. Jean Carroll is looking for new ‘very substantial’ damages from former President Donald Trump over comments he made about her in his town hall with CNN.

The author’s authorized staff filed new authorized papers in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday simply two weeks after successful $5million when a jury discovered Trump, 76, liable of sexual abuse and defamation.

Her legal professionals amended a separate defamation lawsuit to incorporate the remarks he made to Kaitlan Collins on May 10 and a Truth Social publish calling the New York verdict on May 9 a ‘shame’. 

‘Trump’s defamatory statements post-verdict present the depth of his malice towards Carroll since it’s onerous to think about defamatory conduct that would presumably be extra motivated by hatred, sick will or spite,’ her legal professionals wrote. ‘This conduct helps a really substantial punitive damages award. 

Carroll claims Trump raped her within the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman within the 1990s. He has constantly denied the allegations and referred to as them a ‘full con job’.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Trump’s authorized staff and marketing campaign for remark. 

Carroll instructed the New York Times earlier this month that she was contemplating submitting one other defamation go well with after Trump instructed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins her story was ‘faux’ and ‘made up’.

He additionally mocked her ‘hanky panky’ claims, referred to as her a ‘whack job’ and claimed the choose banned his authorized staff from getting into proof that Carroll referred to as her husband an ‘ape’ and had a cat ‘named Vagina’. 

‘It’s simply silly, it is simply disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds folks,’ Carroll instructed The Times. 

Following a two-week trial, the jury discovered Trump liable within the civil case for abuse and defamation however not rape, after slightly below three hours of deliberations.

Trump then filed an enchantment on the identical day Carroll hinted she would sue once more. 

Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina had beforehand stated he would enchantment the decision and stated the previous president may by no means get a good trial in New York. 

His discover of enchantment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was filed hours after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a ruling awarding Carroll the judgment and shutting the case.

In the televised town hall, Trump made a number of disparaging comments about Carroll that elicited applause and laughter from the viewers of New Hampshire Republicans and impartial voters who plan to vote within the state’s Republican main.

The town hall was his first public look for the reason that Carroll verdict. Collins pressed Trump over what occurred and the potential affect on his political future.

‘What do you say to voters who say it disqualifies you from being president?’ Collins requested him.

‘There weren’t too lots of them as a result of my numbers simply – they went up,’ Trump stated because the viewers cheered and applauded.

The former president repeated his declare he did not know Carroll after which proceeded to insult her repeatedly – accusing her of ‘hanky panky,’ claiming she has a cat referred to as ‘Vagina’ and that she referred to as her husband an ‘ape’. He slammed U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who was appointed to the job by President Bill Clinton. 

‘This lady, I do not know her. I by no means met her. I do not know who she is. I had an image taken years in the past along with her and her husband, good man John Johnson. He was a newscaster, very good. She referred to as him an ape, occurs to be African American. Called him an ape,’ Trump claimed. 

‘The choose would not enable us to place that in. Her canine or her cat was named Vagina, the choose would not enable to place that in,’ he added.

‘We had a horrible Clinton appointed choose. He allowed her to place every thing in,’ he stated. 

Trump additionally launched right into a recounting of Carroll’s claims in a mocking voice, drawing laughs from the viewers. He referred to Carroll as ‘a wack job.’ 

Trump additionally stated of Carroll: ‘What form of a girl meet someone and brings them up and inside minutes you are taking part in hanky-panky in a dressing room, I do not know if she was married then or not. John Johnson, I really feel sorry for you.’

Collins additionally requested Trump if he needed to take again comments he made throughout a taping of Access Hollywood, the place he talked about grabbing girls by the p**** and stated well-known folks had been allowed to do issues like that.

‘I stated girls allow you to, I did not say you seize… I stated girls let — you already know, you did not use that phrase — however when you look, girls allow you to,’ Trump stated. 

‘Now, they stated will you are taking that again? I stated, look, for 1,000,000 years that is the way in which it has been. I wish to be trustworthy that is the way in which it has been,’ he added. 

‘You would love me to take that again. I can not take it again as a result of it occurs to be true,’ he famous.