While a Manhattan federal jury last year found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, the jury did not find that she proved he had raped her. Dismissing a countersuit months later, however, the judge in the case concluded that the claim Trump raped Carroll was “substantially true.”
“Indeed, the jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis. Thus, it establishes against him the substantial truth of Ms Carroll’s ‘rape’ accusations,” Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote.
Trump’s lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, claims that Stephanopoulos’s statements were “false, intentional, malicious and designed to cause harm.”
A representative for ABC News did not provide an immediate comment.
But Trump, who regularly demonizes the press, has a long history of filing meritless lawsuits against the news media. He was recently forced to pay $392,000 in attorney fees to The New York Times for a failed lawsuit against the newspaper.
While a Manhattan federal jury last year found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, the jury did not find that she proved he had raped her. Dismissing a countersuit months later, however, the judge in the case concluded that the claim Trump raped Carroll was “substantially true.”
“Indeed, the jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis. Thus, it establishes against him the substantial truth of Ms Carroll’s ‘rape’ accusations,” Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote.
Trump’s lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, claims that Stephanopoulos’s statements were “false, intentional, malicious and designed to cause harm.”
A representative for ABC News did not provide an immediate comment.
But Trump, who regularly demonizes the press, has a long history of filing meritless lawsuits against the news media. He was recently forced to pay $392,000 in attorney fees to The New York Times for a failed lawsuit against the newspaper.
Finger banging a woman in a changing room doesn't qualify as rape now?
That's not what he was charged with, or found guilty of though. They couldn't charge him with rape, so they charged him with defamation, claiming he defamed her character by saying that she lied about him raping her.
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