After a Manhattan jury sided with E. Jean Carroll in a civil case against Donald Trump, the former President doubled down on his attacks. David Remnick speaks with Carroll about Trump’s vicious slander—and whether it might finally lead to his comeuppance.
After decades of showing disdain for the rule of law, Donald Trump may finally have encountered the intimations of his demise, in the form of E. Jean Carroll, the former advice columnist formagazine. According to Carroll, Trump raped her in the mid-nineteen-nineties in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman—a department store situated, as it happens, on Fifth Avenue, precisely where Trump had always said he could commit any crime he wished and “wouldn’t lose any voters, O.K.
The transcript was plenty shocking to Carroll, but what she could not sense fully was the sound of people laughing along with Trump’s insults and accusations. When she later watched footage of the town hall, she admitted, it was painful to hear the laughter that followed Trump’s comments, but she understood. “People believe what he has to say, and they’re going to go along with it,” she said. “And so the plunge was thorough.
Were there any legal mechanisms to force Trump to stop attacking Carroll? “You won’t be surprised to learn, it’s very rare, for a defamation defendant who’s lost, to continue the defamation,” Kaplan said. “So there’s not a lot of case-law precedent for this. There was an option, and there still is an option, to seek what’s essentially a gag order. And great First Amendment experts, like Floyd Abrams, have told me that this would be maybe the best possible case, to get such a gag order.
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