Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump reacts to supporters as he takes the stage during the Get Out the Vote rally on March 2, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia.
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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that author E. Jean Carroll had made “completely false accusations” against him, despite similar accusations that led to his defamation case in January Lost the case.
Trump campaigns at rally in Rome, Georgia A $91.6 million bond was mentioned. On March 8, three days before he was due to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages, he posted that she had denied her claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. allegation and defamed her in the statement.
Carroll first filed sexual assault charges against Trump in 2019, followed by another civil trial in May 2023, in which a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but did not rape her.
“I just paid $91 million in bail, and $91 million of that was on a fake story, a completely made-up story,” Trump said, adding that the sentence was “based on a story that I know nothing about.” I don’t know anything about the false accusations made by a woman against me, I haven’t heard of them, I know nothing about her.”
The 77-year-old made similar remarks in a statement issued by MSNBC legal reporter Lisa Rubin on June 22, 2019 Posted on X On Saturday, it included a document in which Trump denied knowing “who this woman is.”
“She wrote a book, she said some things, and when I denied it, I said, ‘That’s crazy, that’s false,’ and I was sued for defamation,” Trump said Saturday. Said before. New York Adult Survivors Acta bill that would extend the state’s statute of limitations by one year, allowing survivors of sexual assault to sue regardless of how long ago the alleged abuse occurred.
“They changed the law to allow women to go back indefinitely…and then she went back and said, maybe in the mid-’90s, I don’t know,” he said.
In addition to the $83.3 million in damages, Carroll won $5 million in sexual abuse and defamation cases last year. In February, the former president was also ordered to pay a fine $464 million He is seeking damages in a separate fraud case against Trump and his company executives — and he plans to appeal all three verdicts.
Trump also expressed his concerns about federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who rejected his request to delay the defamation verdict, calling him “Trump’s unhinged, angry man.”
Neither Carroll’s legal team nor the Trump campaign immediately responded to CNBC’s request for comment.
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