--- title: Trump Countersues E. Jean Carroll for Defamation Over Rape Claims description: The former U.S. President on Tuesday night filed a counterclaim accusing Carroll of trashing his reputation by publicly accusing him of rape during a May 10 appearance on CNN. canonical: https://time.com/6290841/trump-defamation-e-jean-carroll-rape/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-06-28T02:40:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T16:05:23.484Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Countersues E. 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Ribeiro—New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty Images by [Erik Larson / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Erik Larson / Bloomberg Contributor Jun 28, 2023 2:40 AM UTC Donald Trump is doubling down on his legal brawl with E. Jean Carroll, suing the New York author for defamation weeks after [a jury held him liable for sexually abusing her](https://time.com/6278559/trump-e-jean-carroll-verdict-impact-nothing-matters/). The former president on Tuesday night filed a counterclaim accusing Carroll of trashing his reputation by publicly accusing him of rape during a May 10 appearance on CNN, despite jurors concluding a day earlier that his actions during the alleged 1996 assault hadn’t gone that far. Trump “has been the subject of significant harm to his reputation, which, in turn, has yielded an inordinate amount of damages sustained as a result,” according to the filing. A jury of six men and three women last month found that Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House in the 2024 presidential election, was liable for sexual abuse — and not liable for rape — before awarding Carroll [$5 million](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/trump-prepares-5-5-million-deposit-in-carroll-sex-abuse-case) in damages. Trump’s court filing Tuesday is a counterclaim in a separate 2019 defamation lawsuit Carroll filed against him that is set to go to trial in January. While Carroll won the first trial, Trump has interpreted the verdict as a victory, of sorts, because of the finding on rape. **Read More:** [_The E. Jean Carroll Verdict Should Be a Death Blow to Trump’s Campaign But Won’t Be_](https://time.com/6278559/trump-e-jean-carroll-verdict-impact-nothing-matters/) Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A Trump lawyer had previously been denied court permission to file a [counterclaim](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/trump-files-notice-of-appeal-of-carroll-sexual-assault-verdict) against Carroll in her defamation case because the request was made too late. But Trump attorney Alina Habba argues that a new window for filing a counterclaim was opened earlier this month when Carroll was allowed to amend her defamation complaint after winning the battery trial. Among other things, Carroll amended her complaint to change every “rape” reference to “sexual abuse.” Carroll also revised the complaint to add Trump’s remarks about her at a CNN town hall, where he called her a liar after the trial and accused her fabricating the attack. When Carroll was asked on CNN a day after the verdict about the jury finding that Trump didn’t rape her, she falsely claimed otherwise, according to the filing. “Oh yes he did, oh yes he did,” she said, according to the filing, which says that Carroll made the comments “with an intent to significantly and spitefully harm and attack” the former president. “The interview was on television, social media and multiple internet websites, with the intention of broadcasting and circulating these defamatory statements among a significant portion of the public,” Trump’s lawyers said in the filing. Carroll went public with her claims in a 2019 magazine article, triggering a wave of sharply worded denials from Trump when he was in the White House, including an assertion by Trump that he couldn’t have raped Carroll because she wasn’t his “type” and that she falsely accused him to help Democrats. Those comments are the subject of Carroll’s defamation suit that’s heading to trial next year. 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