Judge Rules Trump Cannot Argue He Didn’t Rape E. Jean Carroll
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled late Saturday night that legal representation for former President Donald Trump cannot argue that he did NOT rape E Jean Carroll.
The ruling came during a late Saturday filing in advance of a trial set for Jan. 16 that will determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll but did not find evidence to conclude that he raped her.
Judge Kaplan wrote: “Defendant and his counsel shall not offer any evidence, conduct examination, or make any argument relating to Carroll II jury’s determination that plaintiff had failed to prove that defendant ‘raped’ her within the meaning of the New York Penal Law.”
In May of 2o23, a jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory damages from Trump after finding he sexually abused her in 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and defamed her in 2022. Trump has continued criticizing Carroll, who responded with another defamation suit set for trial on Jan. 16.
