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Politics
Tatyana Tandanpolie

Judge "implicitly rejects" Trump defense

E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who sued former President Donald Trump for sexual battery and defamation last month and won, can pursue a $10 million related defamation case, the judge who presided over the trial said Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Carroll could amend her original defamation suit after Trump argued for its dismissal on the grounds that the jury had concluded he had not raped her, Reuters reports. The Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.

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