Judge tosses Trump's counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll, finding rape claim 'substantially true'

A federal judge in New York on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s countersuit against E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won a $5 million verdict against the former president for battery and defamation earlier this year.

Trump filed his counterclaims against Carroll in June, alleging she defamed him by continuing to say publicly that he’d raped her even after a jury found him not liable for doing so.

But, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan noted Monday, the jury did find Trump liable for…

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