- Trump called said Carroll made a ‘false accusation’ against him
- It came after he posted $91 million bond after jury award
Former President Donald Trump once again attacked rape accuser E. Jean Carroll just days after securing a $91.6 million bond to pay a jury award despite his ongoing legal exposure.
Trump called her accusations against him ‘false’ and ridiculed her as ‘Miss Bergdorf Goodman,’ in reference to her allegation that he raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s.
‘I have no idea who she is, except one thing, I got sued,’ he told CNBC in a call-in interview Monday. ‘From that point on I said, ‘Wow, that’s crazy, what this is.’
‘I got charged, I was given a false accusation and had to post a $91 million bond on a false accusation,’ he said.
Former President Donald Trump mocked rape accuser E. Jean Carroll as ‘Miss Bergdorf Goodman’ and called her accusations against him ‘false’
Trump’s denial comes after he has had to put down money in two separate judgements in the case. A jury in May ordered him liable for sexual abuse and awarded $5 million in damages to his accuser. Trump has put up $5.6 million as he appeals the verdict.
He is also appealing the separate $83 million verdict that required him to post the larger bond Friday, which he secured through insurance company Chubb.
After the two defamation verdicts, Trump faces the prospect of getting sued yet again for his attacks on Carroll. He has denied her allegations both in court and in public.
He blasted her once again at a Saturday rally in Georgia.
‘I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million on a fake story, totally made-up story,’ Trump said. ‘Ninety-one million based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about her,’ he said.
Trump spoke days after posting a $91 million bond after a Carroll jury verdict
Trump’s comments on CNBC could direct any future Carroll lawsuit back to the courtroom of Judge Lewis Kaplan, according to George Conway
Trump spoke about the case in a wider-ranging interview on CNBC
‘And when I denied it, I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s false.” I get sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.’
Lawyer and Trump critic George Conway posted 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 libeled @ejeancarroll on @CNBC @CNBCSquwalk@CNBC is highly significant for a procedural reason in addition to a substantive one, he posted on X.’
‘Were E. Jean to sue Trump just for the speech he gave in northwest Georgia the other day, she would have had to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. But now that he libeled her on Squawk Box, which is anchored in Manhattan, she may now sue in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. If she does that, the case would be assigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan as a case related to the earlier two cases that produced $88.3 million in damages awards.’
Kaplan – who Carroll hired at Conway’s recommendation – wrote in a new court filing Monday that her team continues to ‘monitor’ Trump’s statements against Carroll, a warning that Carroll could sue him once again.
However she did not avail herself of potential opportunities to oppose the way Trump paid the bond, writing that the two sides had made some accommodations on logistics.
