Donald Trump appeals sexual abuse verdict as accuser considers suing him a third time

Ex-President Donald Trump is filing an appeal after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming a writer – who says she is considering suing him a third time.

Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday afternoon, less than 48 hours after a Manhattan jury awarded $5million to columnist E Jean Carroll.

The appeal was filed the same day that Carroll said she may sue Trump a third time, after his scathing comments about her in a Wednesday night CNN town hall.

Trump in the televised town hall called Carroll a ‘whack job’ and the case ‘rigged’.

‘What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room?’ said Trump.

Carroll said she was asleep while Trump criticized her and that her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, sent her a transcript of his remarks. She said she stopped reading after the first paragraph.

‘It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,’ Carroll told The New York Times on Thursday.

Kaplan said they have not decided if they will file a new defamation case. In addition to the rape and defamation case that concluded on Tuesday in Carroll’s favor, the writer has an earlier defamation case against Trump that remains pending.

‘Everything’s on the table, obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it,’ Kaplan told the newspaper. ‘We have to weigh the various pros and cons and we’ll come to a decision in the next day or so, probably.’

Trump’s team previously said he planned to appeal Tuesday’s judgement.

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