E. Jean Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump for the president’s comments denying the journalist’s claims that he raped her in a department store in the 1990s
On Monday, the White House again rejected the allegations made by Carroll in the New York Magazine article, which Trump previously decried as a “dying publication trying to prop itself up by peddling fake news.”
“Let me get this straight – Ms. Carroll is suing the President for defending himself against false allegations?” White HouseStephanie Grisham said in an email to POLITICO in response to a request for comment on the lawsuit. “I guess since the book did not make any money she’s trying to get paid another way. The story she used to try and sell her trash book never happened, period.
“This lawsuit is not only about me,” Carroll said in the statement. “I am filing this on behalf of every woman who has ever been harassed, assaulted, silenced, or spoken up only to be shamed, fired, ridiculed and belittled. It’s for every woman who can’t speak up because she’ll lose the job she needs to support her three kids. No person in this country should be above the law – including the President.
Trump also found himself in a legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels, who was paid not to disclose an alleged affair with Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Daniels received $130,000 in hush money from Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer at the time. The libel case was thrown out last October by a federal judge, who ordered Daniels to
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