An attorney for a longtime advice columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggested Monday that a new lawsuit is possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a campaign rally. Roberta Kaplan, who represents 80-year-old writer E. Jean Carroll, noted in a statement that the statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions ranges from one to three years, the AP reports. "As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll," Kaplan said.
Her statement came after Trump angrily complained during a nearly two-hour speech at a Rome, Georgia, rally on Saturday that he had "just posted" a $91.6 million bond to cover the January verdict by a Manhattan jury while he appeals. Trump told the crowd that the verdict was "based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn't know, never heard of." His statements about Carroll were similar to those he made while he was president after Carroll publicly revealed her claims in a 2019 memoir that Trump had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room across the street from Trump Tower in 1996. At the time, Trump said she was lying to sell her book and damage him politically.
For over 10 minutes on Saturday, Trump railed against his civil cases and four criminal cases, per the AP, saying he'd been indicted more often than the "late, great Al Capone." Trump, 77, followed up his rally statements with an interview on Monday on CNBC's Squawk Box in which he labeled Carroll as "Miss Bergdorf Goodman," saying, "I have no idea who she is." The January verdict at a trial that Trump regularly attended and briefly testified at was based on the 2019 comments.
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