Former columnist E. Jean Carrollin which the former President of the United States Donald Trump ordered to pay $5 million after she pleaded guilty to sexual assault, she testified a new lawsuit against him for defamation in connection with statements he made after the decision.

“She’s crazy,” the 2024 Republican presidential nominee said on CNN air the day after the May 9 unanimous decision of nine New York City jurors.

During the show, in front of an audience that was also questioning Trump, the former president reiterated that he “never met” the former Elle columnist and again spoke of the “fabricated story.”

Trump’s statementsafter the decision is announced, they demonstrate the depth of his malice towards Carol.“, her lawyers state in the new lawsuit. Carroll seeks damages “in order to punish Trump” as well as “in order to prevent him from engaging in other defamatory activities and prevent other people from doing the same.”

The day before CNN aired the 45th president USA was found guilty of sexually assaulting a columnist who accused him of raping her in a fitting room at Bergdorf Goodman in New York in the spring of 1996.

The jury also found Trump guilty of defamation for statements he made in 2022 and ordered him to pay Carroll a total of $5 million. Trump filed an appeal.

According to APE-MPE, AFP and Reuters.