In an interview with Rachel Maddow last night with her client E. Jean Carroll, attorney Roberta Kaplan discussed the next steps to counter the Malignant Loser's renewed defamation of Carroll in his disgraceful CNN "town hall", despite being held liable for sexual abuse and defamation:
"So, it is definitely actionable. And here, the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He is not going to get away with it another time. It's unprecedented for a person to have been held liable in defamation to keep doing the defamation. So, there aren't a lot of cases we can look to for a playbook about how to do it but suffice it to say, I have a lot of lawyers [who are] very busy looking into this, and we are weighing all of our options. [snip]
....he is actually a very good defamation defendant if you are planning to sue for defamation because he lies all the time. He lies as a matter of habit. He lies about big things. He lies about small things. And in this case, we were able to show those lies not only about it being fake news and a hoax and made-up story but even when I showed him that famous photo where he mistook E. Jean for Marla Maples, when he realized he had made the mistake he then said, 'the photo is blurry.' The photo was not blurry, but it was classic Donald Trump. And I think the jury really heard that. They really absorbed it. That's why we got a verdict in two and a half hours." (our emphasis)
He undoubtedly has more defamation actions coming, including from the mother / daughter 2020 election workers in Georgia, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, whom he and his allies defamed and caused them to be threatened by his violent cult. As people that he's defamed and threatened over the years come forward to press their claims, we expect, as Roberta Kaplan says, "the cruelty will make him less wealthy."
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