A federal judge on Wednesday found Donald Trump liable for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll by denying in 2019 that he had raped her, and said jurors will decide only how much the former U.S. president should pay in damages.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan comes ahead of a scheduled Jan. 15, 2024, civil trial, after a jury in May ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million for sexual assault and a separate defamation.
He has also separately pleaded not guilty to charges in four separate federal and state criminal indictments, including two for attempting to reverse his 2020 election loss. Trump claimed he had never met Carroll, and that she made up the attack to boost sales of her memoir, saying it "should be sold in the fiction section" and that it was "an absolute disgrace that she's allowed to do that."In his 25-page decision, Kaplan said the May 9 jury verdict eliminated the need to relitigate the alleged attack.
Carroll has argued that Trump's first defamation caused her more harm, including to her reputation, than his second.
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