

In May, jurors sided with her in this case. The columnist filed the second lawsuit against Trump (this time for both defamation and rape) after the state of New York lifted the statute of limitations for survivors of sexual assault to file civil claims. Trump responded, denying the accusation and saying that the writer had ulterior motives.Ĭarroll sued Trump - twice (in 2019 and later in 2022) - for his public rebuke of her accusation.


She made the allegations with the publication of her memoir What Do We Need Men For: A Modest Proposal. In 2019, Carroll first publicly came forward saying Trump had raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s when the future president was just a businessman. Rewind to the start of the Carroll legal case
