Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan has entered an opinion granting E. Jean Carroll’s request to dismiss Trump’s counterclaim against her.
Trump had brought the counterclaim disputing Carroll’s assertion during her interview on CNN in May 2023 that he had raped her, claiming that her statements during the broadcast constituted defamation.
Kaplan’s opinion states that Trump has no grounds to sue for defamation as her assertion that he raped her was “substantially true” as a matter of law.
In other words, Kaplan reaffirms in his opinion that by both legal and common understanding of what constitutes rape, Trump did in fact rape E. Jean Carroll, and therefore he cannot sue for defamation as her statement that she was raped by Trump was not false.
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