A New York writer who accused Donald Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store is filing a new defamation suit against him based on his latest attacks on Truth Social.
A lawyer representing E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s, informed Manhattan U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the action in a letter on Thursday, reported Law and Crime.
Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in 2019 after he denied her accusation during a White House interview, deriding her as not “my type” and claiming she was just out to get publicity.
Trump last month repeated some of the same attacks in posts on Truth Social. He denounced her claim as a “complete con job” and a “hoax and a lie.” He again noted: “While I’m not supposed to say it, I will. This woman is not my type!”
Trump’s lawyers have tried to argue that whatever he said as president was protected from legal action. He had no such…
