A jury in May found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the mid-1990s.
Tacopina also wrote that the $2.7 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded Carroll for Trump's defamatory statements about her allegations "was based on pure speculation" about the purported reputational harm she suffered from his comments.
"But Trump's arguments are frivolous — the jury carefully considered the evidence that Ms. Carroll presented, and Trump did not put on a single witness of his own," said the lawyer, who is not related to the judge. "This time, Trump will not be able to escape the consequences of his actions." That suit has been delayed due to questions of whether Trump could be held civilly liable for statements he made as president, in contrast to his statements about Caroll last fall, which he made as a private citizen.
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