Former President Donald Trump’s “whack job” comments – and others – about E. Jean Carroll could lead to another defamation lawsuit as her lawyer revealed that “everything is on the table” in the wake of a CNN event in the town hall that has been filtered by media figures both inside and outside the network.
Carroll spoke to The New York Times on Thursday after a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation and called on him to pay $5 million in damages.
Trump claimed in his appearance at City Hall that he had no idea “who the hell she is,” while rambling on and on, claiming she had a “fake”, “made-up story” — comments that led to her being The Times told that she was “offended by better people”.
“It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, mean, mean, it hurts people,” said Carroll, who claimed Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman locker room in the 1990s.
Trump, who turned down a chance to testify in the trial and later claimed he was “unconstitutionally” silenced, reportedly filed a notice on Thursday to appeal the verdict in the case.
Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, revealed to The Times that her legal team has been considering filing another libel lawsuit.
“Everything is on the table, of course, and we need to think about it seriously,” Kaplan said.
Carroll, who aside from the case that concluded this week, had separately sued Trump for defamation in a case that is still pending.
Carroll, who said she was happy with the recent verdict, told The Times that she has since been “upset” after hearing her stylist talk about her teenage son’s comment about Trump’s city hall.
“I’m angry on behalf of young men in America,” Carroll said.
“They can’t listen to this nonsense and this old-fashioned image of women, which is the image of a caveman.”