E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer Says Donald Trump’s CNN Town Hall Slurs Crossed The Line
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, on Monday told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump’s slurs against her client during his controversial CNN town hall last week are “definitely actionable.”
Kaplan also teased an imminent development in another defamation case that Carroll had brought against the former president, stemming from similarly derogatory comments he made in 2019 when he was in the White House.
Last Tuesday, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered him to pay $5 million total damages — after Carroll alleged he raped her in a