The writer E. Jean Carroll, who convinced a jury that Donald Trump owed her $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming her, asked a judge to dismiss the former U.S. president's countersuit that she defamed him by repeating her claim that he raped her.
where she said "oh yes he did, oh yes he did" when asked about the jury finding that he did not commit rape.
The countersuit is part of the first of Carroll's two lawsuits accusing him of defamation - the second resulted in the $5 million verdict - for denying he raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.Responding to her June 2019 accusation that he raped her, Trump had claimed he had not known Carroll, that she was not his "type," and that she lied to boost sales of her memoir.
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