Former President Donald Trump lost his defamation counterclaim against writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday morning, as a federal judge found that Carroll’s rape allegations were “substantially true.”
In May, a federal jury in New York found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s and then defamed her after she went public. They unanimously awarded Carroll $5 million after three hours of deliberations.
Trump premised his…