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Trump launches defamation countersuit against E Jean Carroll

E Jean Carroll arrives at a New York federal court on May 8 for closing arguments in a defamation and rape case against former Republican President Donald Trump [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

Former US President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against E Jean Carroll, a writer whom a jury recently found that Trump sexually abused in the 1990s.

The countersuit, which was filed in a Manhattan federal court late on Tuesday, said that Carroll has continued to accuse Trump of rape even after the jury rejected that claim, instead finding him liable for sexual assault.

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