Trump's latest E. Jean Carroll attack could land him in front of unfriendly judge: expert
Donald Trump might have left himself open to another defamation suit with his latest attack on New York writer E. Jean Carroll at a rally over the weekend — and his choice of venue this time may have made matters much worse for him.
That is the opinion of former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance who wrote that a new lawsuitsuit, should Carroll and her attorney wish to go down that path, could be filed in north Georgia — where past cases related to the former president have not fared well for him.
On Saturday night, Trump told a crowd in Rome, Georgia, “I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million on a fake story, totally made-up story."
“Ninety-one million [dollars] based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about her,” he continued, before adding, "She wrote a book, she said things And when I denied it, I said, ‘It’s so crazy. It’s false.’ I get sued for defamation. That’s where it starts.”
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As Vance wrote on her "Civil Discourse" platform, Carroll's attorney might find a sympathetic ear if she sues in Georgia.
"Trump thinks his $83.3 million buys him a license to defame Carroll endlessly," she added, referring to the amount of damages the former president was hit with after the second Carroll defamation trial. The $91 million bond he referred to was offered so that he could start an appeal of that decision.
"Rome is in the Northern District of Georgia, for those who may want to speculate at this point about whether Carroll will sue Trump for a third time."
"That is the same court where federal Judge Stephen C. Jones refused to remove the Fulton County district attorney’s prosecutions of Trump co-defendant Mark Meadows and others from state court to federal court," she elaborated.
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