E. Jean Carroll, former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court for the continuation of the civil case, in Recent York City, May 9, 2023.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is answerable for defamatory statements he made in regards to the author E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he had raped her a long time earlier.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, as a part of that ruling granting Carroll a partial summary judgment, said the upcoming trial for her civil lawsuit against Trump will only cope with the query of how much the previous president should pay her in monetary damages.
The 25-page decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan is the newest big loss for Trump in suits filed by Carroll.
In May, a jury in the identical court for a related lawsuit found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll during an encounter in a Recent York department store within the mid-Nineties, and had defamed her last fall in comments that again denied her allegations.
Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages in that case, which related to comments he made after he was president.
The suit that was the topic of Kaplan’s ruling Wednesday pertains to statements about Carroll that Trump made when he was president as he denied her claim of rape.
Trial within the case is ready to start on Jan. 15.
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