NEWSWEEK
Retired journalist E. Jean Carroll would win even greater damages if she sues former President Donald Trump for a third time, an attorney has said.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, has obtained a transcript of Trump’s January 17 press conference in which he again claimed that she was lying when she said he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s at a New York City department store. Kaplan told a court that Trump defamed Carroll in his comments, setting up a possible third defamation case.
Bryan M. Sullivan, Hunter Biden‘s attorney and a founding partner at Los Angeles-based Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, told Newsweek that a third defamation case would likely be even more costly for Trump than the previous two.
“She can sue him a third time, and precedence has been established from the first two cases. The damages would likely be increased the third time,” he said.
Sullivan said that the former president’s comments also open the prospect of a gag order or contempt proceedings in the ongoing second defamation trial.
“It would give the court potential grounds to issue an injunction precluding Trump from speaking about the claims that can be subsequently enforced in contempt proceedings,” he said.
