Former US President Donald Trump filed a libel lawsuit against Jean Carroll on Tuesday. a month after a jury found him liable for sexual assault and libel for denying the charges against him.

Trump claims the writer slandered him when she accused him of rape during a statement in an appearance on the television network CNNjust one day after a jury found the former president responsible for assault, but not rape, and awarded Carroll $5 million in punitive damages.

Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s, as well as defaming her when she decided to make her complaint public in a book she published in 2019.

The counterclaim claims that Carroll did “these false statements with sincere malice and ill will, with intent to attack in any significant way and with spite”. It thus indicates that Trump has suffered “significant damage to his reputation, which in turn has caused an inordinate amount of damage,” the paper reports. The hill.

Trump’s lawyers claim Carroll’s comments are intruding CNN they were created on multiple platforms to ensure they reached a large audience. The writer said “yes she did” in response to an interview question asking her opinion on the jury’s decision.

“The interview was conducted on television, social networks and multiple Internet websites, with the intention of broadcasting and disseminating these defamatory statements to a significant portion of the public.” denounced Trump’s legal team.

Robbie Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, opined that Trump’s lawsuit “is nothing more than his latest attempt to defer liability, which a jury has already found defamed Carroll. But whether you like it or not, that accountability will come very soon,” reports the aforementioned newspaper.