Former journalist E. Jean Carroll, to whom Donald Trump must pay $ 5 million for a 1996 sexual assault, sued him again for defamation on Monday after statements made by the former US president after the verdict against him.

“She’s crazy,” Trump said of Carroll CNN the day after the unanimous verdict, handed down on May 9 by a jury of nine citizens in New York.

Donald Trump, convicted of sexual assault, denied having seen writer E. Jean Caroll in his life

To the audience, the Republican primary nominee for the 2024 presidential election reiterated that he did not know the former Elle magazine chronicler and described the topic as “invention”.

The new complaint is based on Trump’s statements made “after the verdict,[which]demonstrate the deep animosity toward Carroll,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said.

His client is seeking “substantial damages” to “punish Trump and deter him from further libel and to deter others from doing the same.”

On the eve of the broadcast on CNN, the jury tried former President Trump (2017-2021) as civilly responsible for assault against Carroll, who accused him of raping her in the dressing room of an intimate clothing store in New York in the spring. from 1996.

Jury convicts Donald Trump of sexual assault and libel, but not rape

The jury also found Trump responsible for defamation of his 2022 statements and ordered him to pay a total of $5 million to his victim, which the Republican appealed.

The new lawsuit was filed as part of an ongoing litigation for previous civil suits since 2019, including those for defamation brought by E. Jean Carroll.

The previous trial was delayed for procedural reasons, especially when trying to determine whether Donald Trump enjoyed presidential immunity in 2019 when he was still in the White House.