Writer who accused Trump of sexual abuse in the 1990s files new lawsuit

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By: The Opinion Updated 54 Nov 2022, 1: 24 am EST

Former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll filed a new lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Thanksgiving Day, the first day of the new Law of New York Adult Survivors which allows adult victims of abuse sexual file civil lawsuits that would otherwise be barred because too much time has passed, their lawyers said during a court hearing Tuesday, according to ABC News.

However, New York’s new law provides victims of sex crimes who missed the deadlines associated with the statute of limitations a second chance to file a lawsuit . A window for such lawsuits will be open for one year, after which the usual deadlines will be reinstated.

Carroll announced that it had filed the lawsuit against the ex-president a few minutes after midnight, already on Thanksgiving day.

Carroll is already suing Trump for defamation in federal court after he denied her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the middle of the week. decade of 1200, saying that she was “not my type”. The new lawsuit, which will also be filed in federal court, will include a new charge of defamation and a charge of assault.

Carroll’s attorneys they asked the federal judge presiding over the original case to delay the trial date to account for the new lawsuit, but the judge refused.

“The second action is technically not before me today,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said.

A Trump attorney, Alina Habba, told him to the judge who did not know if he would represent him in the new lawsuit.

In his new claims, Carroll maintains that Trump committed assault “when he raped and forcibly groped her” and who defamed her when she denied having raped her in her statements last month.

Trump said in his statement that Carroll “completely fabricated the story that I met her outside a department store door.” Crowded stores in New York City and, within minutes, I ‘passed out’ on her. It is a hoax and a lie, just like all the other hoaxes that have been played on me for the last seven years.”

The new ability of Carroll to sue Trump for rape could help her avoid a potentially fatal legal flaw in her original defamation case.

If the courts ultimately hold that Trump’s original derogatory comments on the impeachment of Carroll’s rape were part of his job duties as president, she could not sue him for those comments, since federal employees are protected from defamation lawsuits.

This protection would not cover the acts carried out before being president.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is presiding over the defamation lawsuit Carroll filed three years ago, may decide to include the new allegations in a trial that probably will take place in the spring.