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Trump in Rome, Georgia
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Only recently, former US President Donald Trump deposited a deposit of more than 90 million US dollars (the equivalent of more than 83 million euros) with the court after losing his libel case against the American author E. Jean Carroll.
Now Trump has once again dealt against Carroll - and thereby risks another lawsuit from the New York writer.
As the New York Times reports, Trump spoke on Saturday at a campaign event in the city of Rome, Georgia, of "91 million because of false allegations made against me by a woman I knew nothing about."
Trump allegedly “didn’t know her and never heard of her.
I don't know anything about her." Carroll "said things" that he denied, after which he was sued for libel.
That's how Trump portrayed it. Carroll "didn't even know when it happened," Trump continued.
“This woman is not credible.” Referring to federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan, Trump also complained that he had been treated “like a common criminal” in court.
According to the New York Times, Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan declined to comment on the US president's recent statements.
However, in a plea agreement, Kaplan once said that people who are held liable for lying usually stop.
Trump, on the other hand, "continued to defame Carroll, even while this trial was still ongoing."
A court had ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in a second civil lawsuit.
A New York jury had found it proven that Trump attacked Carroll in a New York luxury department store in 1996, sexually abused him and later slandered him.
The jury then initially awarded the writer compensation of five million dollars.
Trump has also appealed this decision.
Trump now had to deposit the money with the court, along with an additional sum based on court provisions and interest.
Trump is appealing the ruling, according to a court document released on Friday.
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