Judge allows writer Caroll to ask Trump for more compensation for taunting on television

A New York judge has authorized this Tuesday the writer E. Jean Carroll to claim greater compensation for damages from former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) for some mockery he dedicated to him on television in May, one day after losing a defamation trial against her.

Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over that trial, gave the green light on Tuesday for these recent comments to be included in another separate and prior defamation case, in which Carroll claims $10 million from the former president, according to local media.

On May 9, after a civil trial, a jury sentenced Trump to pay compensation of 5 million dollars to Carroll for having sexually abused her years ago and for having later defamed her when she publicly denounced the facts.

The next day, at a CNN town hall meeting, Trump rejected the guilty verdict, said he did not know Carroll, reiterated that her story was “false” and called her “crazy” to applause and laughter from a crowd. audience made up mainly of his supporters.

Following those taunts televised on CNN, on May 22 Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, petitioned the court to modify a 2019 defamation case against Trump, different from the one in the won trial, in order to include those comments.

The lawyer then indicated that her client was seeking “very substantial punitive damages” after Trump “repeated many of the defamatory comments for which the jury had just found him liable the day before,” according to the documents.

Trump has tried to get the judge to throw out that 2019 defamation case, which concerns similar comments he made while he was president and is stalled on appeal.

Trump's judicial problems have been mounting in recent weeks, and this Tuesday he appeared in a Miami court to plead not guilty to 37 federal crimes in the case of classified official documents that were found in his Florida home.