A United States judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation counterclaim against the writer E Jean Carroll, who is pursuing a second defamation lawsuit against the former US president after winning a $5m jury verdict in May.On Monday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Trump’s defamation claim must be dismissed because Carroll’s statements were at least “substantially true”, and Trump failed to show that Carroll made them with actual malice.Trump had sued Carroll for defamation after she said, “Oh yes, he did. Oh yes, he did,” when asked on the television channel CNN about the jury’s finding that he had not raped her. The jury had found him liable for sexual assault.
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