Trump to appeal $5M judgment in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday formally signaled he would appeal the $5 million judgement against him in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit — as the writer’s attorneys said she’s thinking of suing him again.

Trump, 76, was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, 79, by a Manhattan federal jury for allegedly assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in 1996 and then for his public statements denying and calling her claims a “hoax.”

During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday Trump called Carroll a “wack job” and said her case was “a rigged deal.”

The comments followed Carroll’s win in her case on Tuesday including on a claim that Trump smeared her name when with a lengthy Oct. 12, 2022 post on his social media platform Truth Social calling her accusations “a complete con job.”

Carroll is now considering filing a third defamation case against Trump over his town hall comments, according to a report by the New York Times.

“It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” Carroll told the Times Thursday.

Her lawyer Roberta Kaplan said they hadn’t decided yet whether or not to bring additional litigation.

“Everything’s on the table, obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it,” Kaplan told the newspaper.

“We have to weigh the various pros and cons and we’ll come to a decision in the next day or so, probably.”

The 79-year-old “Ask E. Jean” advice columnist has a 2019 defamation case still pending against the 45th president for his comments about her from 2019 denying having ever met her and calling her a liar.

Carroll came forward with her claims in June of that year when New York Magazine published an excerpt of her book laying out her account of what happened.

Kaplan didn’t immediately return a request for comment Thursday.

At trial, Carroll said that Trump’s comments cost her long-time job at Elle magazine, the millions of readers of her column and her journalistic reputation.

She told the jury that she brought the case in an attempt to restore her name.

This is a developing story