The former president has continued to criticize the journalist in public statements.

An attorney representing E. Jean Carroll has indicated the journalist could sue Donald Trump for a third time, as the former president continues to speak about her client publicly.

Speaking on MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki on Monday night, Shawn Crowley, an attorney for Carroll, responded to the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination telling supporters at a Michigan rally on Saturday that he had not done anything wrong to Carroll, whom he claimed he did not know, and that lawsuits against him were “unfair.”

In January, a New York City jury ordered that the former president must pay $83.3 million in damages to the former Elle columnist, for statements made in 2019. He said she was lying about allegations that he sexually assaulted her inside a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s. That amount includes $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million for reputational repair, and $65 million in punitive damages. He has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing and has said he will appeal the verdict.

Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages in May in another civil defamation trial stemming from a denial he made about her claims in 2022. He is appealing that decision and has set aside $5.55 million with the Manhattan Court as part of that process. Newsweek contacted a representative for Trump by email to comment on this story.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    36·
    9 months ago

    Not really? Trump uses banks, and banks will freeze assets to a court order and turn them over.

    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      217·
      9 months ago

      That only applies to people who aren’t rich. Trump is going to use the Alex Jones playbook of bankruptcy, shell companies, and “but I can’t survive on anything less than 80k a month”

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        28·
        9 months ago

        No? Alex Jones’s assets were not public, so they were easier to hide. Trump has many public assets, and the Trump Org is a very public (although privately held) company.

        There’s already a judge in control of the Trump Org, so they can’t move any money without approval. The State of NY is literally holding him by the balls, whether he pays up or not.

        Banks do not help people whose assets are already frozen. It would be obvious and they would get a massive fine, and the recipient bank would send the money back (if they’re in the US). Plus whichever bank employee made the transfer would be fired.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        9 months ago

        He has already posted the bond for the first order. He has to post the second to appeal. Which he will. He’s not getting out of this. Each bond is above the initial is in the article.