A lawyer for a longstanding advice columnist who sued Donald Trump for defamation and won a $83.3 million settlement said on Monday that the former president could file a new lawsuit against her after he started verbally abusing her at a campaign event.
According to the AP, Roberta Kaplan, the attorney representing 80-year-old author E. Jean Carroll, said in a statement that most jurisdictions have a one- to three-year statute of limitations for defamation cases. "As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll," Kaplan said.
Her remarks followed Trump's irascible protests during a nearly two-hour address on Saturday at a rally in Rome, Georgia, that he had "just posted" a $91.6 million bail to cover the Manhattan jury's January decision until he files an appeal. The decision, according to Trump, was "based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, did not know, never heard of."
Following Carroll's public disclosure of her allegations in a 2019 book that Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room across the street from Trump Tower in 1996, his remarks on Carroll were identical to those he made during his presidency. Trump said at the time that she was lying to promote her book and hurt him politically.
According to the AP, Trump bashed his four criminal charges and his civil suits for more than ten minutes on Saturday, claiming he had received more indictments than the "late, great Al Capone."
Following up his remarks during the rally, Trump, 77, called Carroll "Miss Bergdorf Goodman" in an interview that aired on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday. He said, "I have no idea who she is." The 2019 remarks served as the foundation for the January ruling in a trial that Trump often attended and gave a short testimony at.
According to the AP, Roberta Kaplan, the attorney representing 80-year-old author E. Jean Carroll, said in a statement that most jurisdictions have a one- to three-year statute of limitations for defamation cases. "As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll," Kaplan said.
Her remarks followed Trump's irascible protests during a nearly two-hour address on Saturday at a rally in Rome, Georgia, that he had "just posted" a $91.6 million bail to cover the Manhattan jury's January decision until he files an appeal. The decision, according to Trump, was "based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, did not know, never heard of."
Following Carroll's public disclosure of her allegations in a 2019 book that Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room across the street from Trump Tower in 1996, his remarks on Carroll were identical to those he made during his presidency. Trump said at the time that she was lying to promote her book and hurt him politically.
According to the AP, Trump bashed his four criminal charges and his civil suits for more than ten minutes on Saturday, claiming he had received more indictments than the "late, great Al Capone."
Following up his remarks during the rally, Trump, 77, called Carroll "Miss Bergdorf Goodman" in an interview that aired on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday. He said, "I have no idea who she is." The 2019 remarks served as the foundation for the January ruling in a trial that Trump often attended and gave a short testimony at.
