Lawyers for E Jean Carroll Urge Judge to Deny Trump’s Renewed Motion in Defamation Case
Published on March 27, 2024
Lawyers for writer E. Jean Carroll have claimed in court that former President Donald Trump is making “meritless” claims that she failed to meet her burden in showing his conduct was the cause of her injuries as part of her defamation case against him. In court filings (pdf) on March 26, attorneys for Ms. Carroll, a magazine columnist, said she had presented “overwhelming evidence” in support of her case against President Trump, whom she filed a defamation lawsuit against in 2019. The lawsuit accused him of having denied raping her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996....