Trump’s legal team had immediately after the ruling Tuesday already declared an appeal against the verdict, in which he was ordered to pay about 5 million dollars (4.6 million euros) in compensation to the victim.
Carroll, 79, says Trump raped her in a New York City department store fitting room in the mid-1990s. He then allegedly damaged her reputation by claiming that she made up the story. The jury found rape not proven, but sexual abuse and libel did. Trump is also guilty of violence, according to the jury.
The writer announced earlier Thursday that she is considering starting a new lawsuit against the former president, because he turned himself in on Wednesday during a meeting broadcast on CNN again spoke negatively about her. He called Carroll “disturbed” and again stated that she made up the whole story. Opposite The New York Times Carroll declared the statements “disgusting, nasty, depraved and harmful.”