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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Trump liable for defaming E Jean Carroll for a second time

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A judge in New York has ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defaming writer E Jean Carroll for a second time.

Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a “partial summary judgment” that the former president had made defamatory statements with “actual malice” about Ms Carroll in 2019 after she went public with claims he had raped her decades earlier.

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