Trump Countersues E. Jean Carroll, Claiming She Defamed Him This Time

June 28, 2023 : Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, has countersued, accusing her of defaming him in turn by repeating her contention that he had raped her.

Last month, a federal jury of six men and three women found that Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, had proved that Mr. Trump sexually abused her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. The jury did not, however, find he had raped her, as she had long claimed.