If the Keystone Kops are ever revived as a group of lawyers, instead of policemen, on the silver screen, you will know that Donald Trump’s legal team was the inspiration. Reuters reported Thursday morning that Trump asked for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll case, on the grounds that the verdict was excessive. One can only assume that the left legal hand doesn’t now what the right one is doing, to be thinking about re-litigating the Carroll case when an indictment by Jack Smith is as omni-present as the wildfire smoke on the east coast right now.
In a filing in Manhattan federal court, Trump’s lawyers said the jury’s $2 million award for the sexual abuse portion of the verdict was “excessive” because the jury had found that Carroll was not raped, and that the conduct Carroll alleged did not cause any diagnosed mental injury.
They also said the $2.7 million award for the defamation claim was “based upon pure speculation.”
A lawyer for Carroll had no immediate comment.
Carroll’s lawsuit, filed in 2022, said Trump raped her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in the mid-1990s, and defamed her by denying it happened. Trump has called Carroll’s claims a “hoax.”
Everything is a hoax to Trump. Hoax is his favorite word. As you recall, Ms. Carroll made the decision to seek additional damages after Trump disparaged her during the CNN Town Hall — which led to the professional demise of CNN CEO Chris Licht yesterday. The Town Hall was supposed to save CNN and Trump and that idea backfired spectacularly.
The legal tussles between Trump and Carroll have grown complex.
On 9 May, a jury found Trump had sexually abused Carroll. But just a day after the decision, Trump made disparaging remarks about her during a televised CNN town hall.
Those comments eventually prompted Carroll to go back to court to demand “very substantial” additional damages from Trump. An amended lawsuit seeking an additional $10m in compensatory damages – and more in punitive damages – was then filed in Manhattan by lawyers for Carroll.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told the New York Times that Trump’s CNN remarks had made a “a mockery of the jury verdict and our justice system” if he was allowed to repeat such defamatory statements.
I don’t know how Trump keeps all these lawsuits straight. What a life.
“Thank you church lady,(SNL skit), may I please have another?”
F him. He’s a LOOOOOOSER.
I thought the basis of Dimwit Donny’s (alleged) vast wealth was “based upon pure speculation.”.
Why shouldn’t other people amass wealth using his method?
“A lawyer for Carroll has no immediate comment.” Probably because they were, and still are, laughing….