Regardless of not too long ago posting a $91.6 million bond to attraction the case the place he was discovered answerable for sexual abuse and defamation, former president Donald Trump continues to defame author E Jean Carroll.
Throughout a rally in Georgia on Saturday, Mr Trump attacked Ms Carroll, her attorneys and the decide who oversaw the case – claiming the lawsuit was politically motivated and funded by “Democratic operatives”.
“I simply posted a $91 million bond on a faux story. Completely made up story,” Mr Trump mentioned. “Primarily based on false accusations made about me by a girl that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, by no means heard of it. I do know nothing about her.”
“Her attorneys are huge Democratic operatives. The decide was a catastrophe. However Democratic operatives funded and directed her, they gave her the cash to pursue the case,” Mr Trump advised supporters.
The assertions are acquainted ones that the previous president has made numerous instances earlier than. They’re the identical ones that landed Mr Trump with a $83m invoice which he was ordered to pay Ms Carroll after defaming her when she got here ahead with accusations that the previous president sexually assaulted her within the Nineteen Nineties.
Two separate juries in New York awarded Ms Carroll damages for Mr Trump’s defamatory statements.
Final spring, a jury discovered the previous president answerable for sexual abuse and defamation when he denied the allegations and referred to as Ms Carroll a “hoax” and a “con job.” In that case, the jury awarded Ms Carroll $5m.
Then in January, one other jury awarded Ms Carroll $83m in damages for making extra defamatory statements. The jury’s solely job was to find out the quantity Mr Trump was liable for paying Ms Carroll because the earlier jury already discovered him answerable for abuse.
Throughout the latest trial, Ms Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, urged the jury to provide you with a sum of cash that will forestall the previous president from persevering with to defame Ms Carroll. However $83m continues to be not sufficient to forestall Mr Trump from making related statements.
Mr Trump advised supporters on Saturday that even the decide overseeing the case, District Decide Lewis Kaplan, was “extremely corrupt” and a “federal Democrat Trump-deranged decide”.
“His title is Lewis Kaplan – an offended man, he screamed at my lawyer,” Mr Trump mentioned.
Throughout the trial, Decide Kaplan expressed frustrations with each Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, in addition to Ms Kaplan, however he by no means “screamed” within the courtroom.
Attacking the prosecution or decide is one among Mr Trump’s most commonly-used defences when talking about one among his many prison or civil trials. In his civil fraud case, Justice Arthur Engoron positioned a gag order on the previous president to forestall him from inspiring folks to ship threats to people or the courtroom.