Magazine writer E. Jean Carroll won her latest legal victory against Donald Trump on Monday, but is still no closer to pocketing the $5 million defamation-sex assault verdict she won from him in May.
In a decision Monday, a federal judge in Manhattan tossed out Trump’s attempt to counter-sue Carroll for defamation.
The former president had claimed Carroll defamed him when she appeared on CNN on the morning after the verdict, which held Trump civilly liable for sexual battery, but not for rape as defined in New York’s penal code.
“Oh, yes, he did,” Carroll had said on CNN This Morning, when asked what had gone through her mind on hearing that the jury found Carroll had not proven that Trump had penetrated her with his penis.
“Oh, yes, he did,” she repeated.