E. Jean Carroll’s Second Defamation Case Against Trump Set To Go To Trial In January 2024

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan scheduled E. Jean Carroll‘s second defamation trial against former president Donald Trump for January 15, 2024.

Kaplan allowed Carroll to file an amended complaint on Tuesday that seeks damages of at least $10 million. This is partly based on remarks Trump made at a CNN town hall last month, including that he never met Carroll and that her allegations were made up.

Carroll’s lawyers wrote in the amended complaint that Trump “doubled down on his prior defamatory statements” at the town hall.

Trump’s team has attempted to block the defamation suit. One of his attorneys, Alina Habba, said Tuesday that they did not believe Carroll should have been allowed to change her defamation complaint “to avoid consequences of an adverse finding.”

The ongoing case began in 2019 when Carroll claimed then-president Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store near his home in New York City in 1995 or 1996. She sued Trump, alleging that he defamed her when he called her accusation a “con job.”

Last month, Carroll received $5 million when a New York jury found Trump liable for defamation and sexually abusing Carroll in a separate case. But the jury did not rule that the evidence presented supported the allegation that Trump raped her.

This defamation case is only one in a succession of upcoming trials for Trump.

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, filed a $250 million lawsuit alleging Trump falsely increased his personal net worth to obtain advantageous loan offers. This trial is set to commence in October 2023.

In March, the Manhattan district attorney accused Trump of falsifying business records in making hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 election. This case will go to trial in March 2024. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

Trump was also arraigned in Florida on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the 37 criminal charges relating to his handling of classified documents. He has been accused of blocking a federal investigation and intentionally keeping national defense information.