Earlier this year, Trump lost a civil lawsuit against the writer, who alleged that he had been abused by him in a fitting room of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, in the heart of New York, in the 1990s.
Jurors ruled that Trump was guilty of sexual assault, but could not be held liable for rape. In addition, he was found guilty of libel for allegedly damaging the writer’s reputation after she released her story by claiming that she made up the entire story. The ex-president, who must pay damages of $ 5 million (4.6 million euros) to Carroll, appealed against the verdict.
Carroll later told CNN about her reaction to the ruling in the case. In the interview, Carroll said, among other things, that she told Trump’s lawyer, “He did it and you know it.”
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Trump, who is running for the upcoming presidential election, feels that his reputation has been tarnished. He demands that the writer reconsider her statements and wants compensation himself.
Carroll has also not given up her legal battle and has already demanded higher damages, because Trump would have publicly called her a liar after the verdict.
Trump claimed in his own interview with CNN that he had never met Carroll and called her a “fool”. “What kind of woman meets someone and takes him upstairs and in minutes you are there hankey panky playing in a fitting room?”, he said, among other things.
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