former us magazine columnist e jean carroll  whom donald trump owes 5 million for 1990s sexual abuse for which a civil jury found him liable  is seeking new damages alleging the expresident further defamed her after the verdict in that civil case shes a whack job the 2024 republican primary candidate said on cnn the day after a new york jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the elle magazine writer earlier this month those comments  with trump adding that carroll was telling a madeup story and that he didnt know her  constitute further defamatory statements carrolls lawyers argue in response her lawyers filed an amended complaint to a 2019 defamation lawsuit carroll had already brought against trump  a separate stillpending case different from the one decided may 9 trump’s defamatory statements postverdict show the depth of his malice toward carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred ill will or spite the complaint reads this conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award in carroll’s favor both to punish trump to deter him from engaging in further defamation and to deter others from doing the same the day before the cnn broadcast a jury had found the former president liable in a civil case for sexually abusing carroll who said trump raped her in a changing room at a new york department store in the 1990s the jury rejected carrolls rape allegation but found trump liable for sexual abuse and subsequent defamation when he called her a complete con job after she came forward with the allegations trump denies the allegations and has appealed the judgment no criminal case can stem from carrolls lawsuit mondays amended complaint is part of a separate defamation case  one thats been delayed by procedural battles including whether trump is protected from comments he made about carroll in 2019 by presidential immunity since he was in the white house at the time