Webdesk: A federal judge in New York has thrown out a case that former President Donald Trump filed for slander.
Trump said that E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine writer who accused him of sexual abuse and rape, smeared his name. This is why Carroll fired.
In his decision on Monday, District Judge Lewis Kaplan said that E. Jean Carroll’s claim that Donald Trump raped her was “substantially true.” The decision goes against what Trump tried to do when he tried to overturn Carroll’s win in a case against him for sexual abuse. In May, a civil hearing found Trump guilty of sexually abusing Carroll during a meeting in the 1990s. Carroll given a $5 million judgement.
Trump’s answer to Carroll’s lawsuit was an attempt to dispute her claim that he had raped her. But the judge’s ruling shows how serious Carroll’s claims are, making it more likely that Trump’s actions were a “felonious sex crime.”
The decision not only throws out Donald Trump’s claim of defamation, but it also helps Carroll in her own defamation case against him. Robbie Kaplan, the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll, said that he was happy with the ruling and that they were looking forward to the January defamation trial. Trump’s public denials of the sexual attack claims are at the centre of the case.
