- Trump called and said Carroll made a ‘false accusation’ against him
- That came after he posted a $91 million bond at the jury’s 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 “bogus” and ridiculed her as “Miss Bergdorf Goodman,” referring to her claim that he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
“I have no idea who she is, except for one thing, I got sued,” he told CNBC in a call-in interview Monday. ‘From that point I was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy, what is this.’
“I was charged, I got a false charge and had to post $91 million bail on a false charge,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump mocked rape accuser E. Jean Carroll as ‘Miss Bergdorf Goodman’ and called her allegations against him ‘bogus’
Trump’s refusal comes after he has had to put money into two separate judgments in the case. A jury in May ordered him liable for sexual misconduct and awarded $5 million in damages to his accuser. Trump has set aside $5.6 million as he appeals the verdict.
He is also appealing the separate $83 million judgment that required him to post the larger bond Friday, which he secured through insurance company Chubb.
Following the two defamation convictions, Trump faces the prospect of being sued once again for his attacks on Carroll. He has denied her accusations both in court and in public.
He blasted her once again at a Saturday rally in Georgia.
“I just issued a $91 million bond, $91 million on a false story, a completely fabricated story,” Trump said. “Ninety-one million based on false allegations about me by a woman I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about,” he said.
Trump spoke days after posting a $91 million bond following a Carroll jury verdict
Trump’s comments to CNBC could lead any future Carroll trial back to the courtroom of Judge Lewis Kaplan, according to George Conway.
Trump spoke about the matter in a broader interview on CNBC
‘And when I refused it, I said, ‘This is so crazy. It’s false.” I’m being sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.’
Attorney and Trump critic George Conway wrote that Trump’s recent 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 slandered @ejeancarroll on @CNBC @CNBCSquwalk@CNBC is very important for a procedural reason in addition to a substantive reason he submitted the X.’
‘If E. Jean were to sue Trump just for the speech he gave in northwest Georgia the other day, she would have had to sue in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. But now that he defamed her on Manhattan-based Squawk Box, she can now sue in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. If she does, the case will be assigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan as a case related to the two earlier cases that awarded $88.3 million in damages.
Kaplan — whom Carroll hired on Conway’s recommendation — wrote in a new filing Monday that her team continues to “monitor” Trump’s statements against Carroll, a warning that Carroll could sue him again.
But she didn’t take advantage of potential opportunities to oppose the way Trump paid off the bond, writing that the two sides had spent some nights on logistics.
