Former US President Donald Trump has filed an appeal after a New York jury held him guilty of sexually abusing and defaming a writer, who has stated that she may sue him for the third time.
On Thursday afternoon, May 11, Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, less than 48 hours after a Manhattan jury awarded columnist E Jean Carroll $5 million.
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Carroll said in the mid-1990s that Trump assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York.
On Tuesday, jurors found Trump guilty, ordering him to pay Carroll almost $2 million in civil violence damages and nearly $3 million for successfully proving that he defamed her by labelling her case “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.”
Trump’s lawyers filed the appeal on the same day Carroll announced she could sue Trump a third time after he made insulting remarks about her during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.
In the televised town hall, the ex-president labelled Carroll a “whack job” and said the case was “rigged.”
“What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room?” said Trump, as some of his followers in the audience laughed.
Carroll said she was asleep when Trump slammed her on TV, but her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, handed her a transcript of his statements. She stated that she stopped reading after the first paragraph.
“It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” Carroll told The New York Times on Thursday.
Kaplan stated that they had not decided whether to pursue a new defamation complaint. In addition to the rape and defamation lawsuit that ended in Carroll’s favour, the writer still has an unresolved defamation action against Trump.
Kaplan told the newspaper, “Everything’s on the table, obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it. We have to weigh the various pros and cons and we’ll come to a decision in the next day or so, probably.”
