Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

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      4 months ago

      Look bud, I don’t know what kind of mental illness you have, but I recommend three things:

      1. Stop being chronically online
      2. Go outside and touch grass
      3. Exercise
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      4 months ago

      Do you really think it’s prudent to openly defend sexual assault in this manner, or to make blanket statements that victims are faking their trauma?