Donald Trump risks being sued again by E. Jean Carroll by claiming her rape allegations are ‘false’ and calling her ‘Miss Bergdorf Goodman’
- Trump called that Carroll had made a “false accusation” against him
- It came after he posted a $91 million bond following jury awards
Former President Donald Trump attacked E. Jean Carroll again just days after securing a $91.6 million bond to pay a jury award despite his continued legal exposure.
Trump called her accusations against him “false” and ridiculed her as “Miss Bergdorf Goodman,” referring to her claim that he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
“I have no idea who she is, except for one thing: I’ve been charged,” he told CNBC in a call-in interview on Monday. “From that moment on I said, ‘Wow, that’s crazy, what this is.’
“I was indicted, falsely accused, and had to post $91 million in bail on a falsely charged charge,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump mocked rape accuser E. Jean Carroll as ‘Miss Bergdorf Goodman’ and called her allegations against him ‘false’
Trump’s denial comes after he had to pay money in two separate judgments in the case. A jury in May ordered him held liable for sexual abuse and awarded his accuser $5 million in damages. Trump has set aside $5.6 million to appeal the verdict.
He is also appealing the separate $83 million judgment that required him to issue Friday the larger bond he secured through insurance company Chubb.
After the two defamation verdicts, Trump faces the prospect of being sued again for his attacks on Carroll. He has denied her allegations both in court and publicly.
He shot her again during a Saturday rally in Georgia.
“I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million based on a fake story, a totally fabricated story,” Trump said. “Ninety-one million based on false accusations about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know about, never heard of, I know nothing about her,” he said.
Trump spoke days after posting $91 million bond following a Carroll jury verdict
According to George Conway, Trump’s comments on CNBC could send any future Carroll lawsuit back to Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom.
Trump spoke about the case in a more extensive interview on CNBC
“And when I denied it, I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s not true.’ I’m being sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.’
Lawyer and Trump critic George Conway argued that Trump’s latest comments could expose him more than those in Georgia, by giving Carroll an opening to try to sue him in New York.
“The fact that Trump smeared @ejeancarroll on @CNBC @CNBCSquwalk@CNBC is not only substantive, but also very important for procedural reasons,” he said. Posted on X.’
“If E. Jean had sued Trump solely because of the speech he recently gave in northwest Georgia, she would have had to file suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. But now that he insulted her on Manhattan’s Squawk Box, she can now file suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. If she does, the case will be reassigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan as a related case to the two previous cases that yielded $88.3 million in damages.”
Kaplan — who hired Carroll at Conway’s recommendation — wrote in a new lawsuit Monday that her team continues to “monitor” Trump’s statements against Carroll, a warning that Carroll could sue him again.
However, she did not take advantage of possible opportunities to oppose the way Trump paid the bail. to write that the two sides had made some logistical adjustments.