By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — An legal professional for a longtime recommendation columnist who received an $83.3 million defamation award in opposition to Donald Trump urged Monday {that a} new defamation lawsuit was doable in opposition to the ex-president after he resumed verbal assaults in opposition to her at a weekend rally.
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents 80-year-old author E. Jean Carroll, famous in a press release that the statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions ranges from one to 3 years.
“As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll,” Kaplan mentioned.
Her assertion got here after the Republican front-runner on this 12 months’s presidential race angrily complained throughout a virtually two-hour speech at a Rome, Georgia, rally on Saturday that he had “just posted” a $91.6 million bond to cowl the January verdict by a Manhattan jury whereas he appeals.
He informed the rally that the decision was “based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of.”
His statements about Carroll had been much like these he made whereas he was president after Carroll first publicly revealed her claims in a 2019 memoir that Trump had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room throughout the road from Trump Tower within the spring of 1996. At the time, Trump mentioned she was mendacity to promote her e-book and harm him politically.
“This woman is not a believable person,” Trump mentioned Saturday. He additionally denounced the trial decide as a “Democrat Trump-deranged judge” and derided a state decide in a separate case who lately refused to halt assortment of a $454 million civil fraud penalty in opposition to Trump as “another whacked-out judge.” For over 10 minutes, Trump railed in opposition to his civil circumstances and 4 prison circumstances, saying he’d been indicted extra usually than the “late, great Al Capone.”
Trump, 77, adopted up his Saturday rally statements with an interview on Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” during which he labeled Carroll as “Miss Bergdorf Goodman” and mentioned, “I have no idea who she is.”
The January verdict at a trial that Trump commonly attended and briefly testified at was based mostly on the 2019 feedback. The trial decide instructed the jury that it was solely to find out what damages, if any, Trump owed on account of his 2019 statements. They had been to just accept the findings of the earlier jury that final May concluded Trump sexually abused Carroll on the division retailer however didn’t rape her in keeping with New York state’s authorized definition of rape.
That jury, in awarding Carroll $5 million, additionally discovered that Trump defamed her with statements made in October 2022. Trump didn’t attend the May trial.
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Associated Press Writer Jill Covin in Washington contributed to this story.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”