On this subject: A first victory for the women victims of Donald Trump
This 79-year-old woman had filed two weeks after the trial a new defamation complaint for remarks that Donald Trump had made on CNN the day after the verdict: “She is crazy”, had launched the favorite for the Republican primary of the presidential election of November 2024. It is within the framework of this new approach by E.Jean Carroll that Donald Trump brought counter-arguments to a story according to him “invented from scratch”, demanding a new civil trial.
Accusations “true on the merits”
Also on CNN in May, the magazine’s former columnist Elle had notably affirmed “Oh yes he did it, he did it”, after the jury found that she had been the victim of a “sexual assault” but not of a “rape”.
However, according to an order on Monday by Manhattan Federal Civil Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, E. Jean Carroll’s accusations that Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room in the lingerie department of the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman, in the spring of 1996, are “substantially true”.
The jury, on May 9, had recognized that Donald Trump had, on that day in 1996, penetrated him with a finger but not with his penis, a crime which would have constituted rape under the law in New York. But for Judge Kaplan, “in fact, these two acts do constitute ‘rape’ in common parlance, according to the definition of certain dictionaries, in federal and other state criminal law” American and abroad.
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The new complaint at the end of May from E. Jean Carroll had been paid as part of the first civil proceedings brought in November 2019, again for defamation, against the former president. This 2019 action had been delayed by procedural battles, including whether Donald Trump enjoyed presidential immunity in 2019, while he was in the White House (2017-2021).
2023-08-08 04:00:03
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