NEW YORK — New York author E. Jean Carroll, who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, plans to file a fresh defamation suit against the former president over a Truth Social post in which he doubled down on remarks he made about her in office.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, stated her intention Thursday in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, who is presiding over the defamation suit Carroll filed in 2019 after Trump denied her claim in a White House interview. The then-president said at the time she wasn’t his “type” and accused her of trying to get publicity for herself.
That case has been bogged down in a protracted legal battle over whether Trump’s comments were protected as official acts by a government employee. But the former president on Oct. 12 repeated his statements on his social media platform, calling her claim a “hoax and a lie.”
