Donald Trump on Wednesday raged about the defamation lawsuit he faces from the writer E. Jean Carroll, a day after the Department of Justice dropped a three-year effort to immunize the former president from Carroll’s claims.
“The Carroll civil case against me is a Miscarriage of Justice and a total Scam,” Trump added. The DOJ’s move Tuesday was the latest in a series of bad news for Trump in connection with Carroll, who has two civil suits against him in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Both cases relate to alleged defamatory statements Trump made at different times about Carroll while denying her claim that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of a New York department store.
The first suit, which relates to statements Trump made about Carroll in 2019, when he was still president, is set to begin trial in January. Since 2020, the Justice Department had argued that Trump should be replaced as a defendant in that case by the U.S. government, due to the fact that he was president at the time he made the disputed comments.
“I didn’t Rape her (I won that at trial) and other than for this case, I have NO IDEA WHO SHE IS, WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE, OR ANYTHING ABOUT HER….” he wrote.
Trump then noted that he is appealing the jury verdict, which he called a “travesty of justice.”
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