Trump Holds Press Event Just To Attack Women Who've Accused Him Of Sexual Assault

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump held a press conference on Friday that was supposed to be about him appealing a $5 million verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.

Instead, for nearly 45 minutes, Trumpstood in front of a microphone ranting about Carroll and another woman who accused him of sexual assault, and then left without taking any questions.

“I never touched her,” Trump said of Carroll, during the New York City event. “I would have had no interest in meeting her.… She made up a story, fabricated 100%, that I attacked her.”

Without any evidence, he accused Carroll of stealing her story from an episode of a popular legal drama TV series.

“Her favorite show is ‘Law & Order,’ ” Trump claimed. “There’s an almost exact story as her story in ‘Law & Order’ about being attacked in the dressing room of a department store.”

“That’s her favorite show, ‘Law & Order,’” he repeated. “She said that.”

The Republican presidential nominee had just been in a federal courtroom with his lawyers, who argued that Carroll’s civil lawsuit against him in May 2023 should be overturned because it relied onimproper evidence. The jury in that case concluded that Trump had attacked Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and awarded her $5 million.

In Jan. 2024, a second jury awarded Carroll another $83.3 million for defamation, after Trump made derogatory comments about her when he was president. The judge in that case instructed the jury that it had to first accept the previous jury’s finding that Trump had sexually assaulted Carroll.

During Friday’s remarks, in his efforts to discredit Carroll, Trump rambled his way into attacking another woman who