E. Jean Carroll's legal fight against Trump: 10 key moments

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58% : "I've never met this person in my life.
43% : Justice Department steps inAlmost a year later, the Trump-era Justice Department officially got involved on Sept. 8, 2020, giving Trump a potential way out.
40% : Carroll sues Trump a second timeAs Carroll's first lawsuit remained tied up, New York became one of multiple states to enact legislation in the wake of the #MeToo movement, reviving previously time-barred claims seeking civil damages for sexual misconduct.
39% : Alleged assault occursCarroll says she encountered Trump at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store in midtown Manhattan, in the spring of 1996.
38% : "This is not America, not America, this is not America," Trump said in the courtroom the day before the verdict.
37% : I have no idea who she is," Trump replied.
37% : Under the Westfall Act, they sought to step in and substitute themselves as the defendant, certifying that Trump made the statements in question in the scope of his employment as president.
37% : Kaplan, the judge, ultimately tossed Trump's counterclaim, ruling it was merely a legal technicality that bore no distinction when the average people describes rape.July 2023: Multi-year, complicated legal fight ends with DOJ departing case, leaving Trump on the hookAfter the escalation, which Carroll's lawyers later described as a "tit-for-tat," Carroll's first lawsuit began to move forward.
33% : Kaplan ruled that Trump had waited too long to try and assert immunity, but an appeals court agreed to hear Trump's appeal on an expedited matter before the upcoming scheduled trial.
33% : Unlike the first trial, Trump attended much of the proceedings and even took the stand in his own defense, turning it into a campaign stop as he zig-zagged between Manhattan federal court and New Hampshire.
32% : On May 9, 2023, a federal jury in New York found Trump liable for sexual abuse.
32% : Carroll also won her defamation claim against Trump and a total of $5 million in damages.
31% : But he's not alone on the list of awful men in my life," the headline read, thrusting Carroll's story into public view for the first time.
27% : It ended with no clear resolution, and the Justice Department reversed on July 11, 2023 and stepped away from the case, leaving Trump on the hook.September 2023:
25% : Trump denied her claims in a written statement the White House began circulating a few hours later.
25% : The day after the verdict, Trump appeared for a pre-scheduled CNN town hall and again denied Carroll's story.
25% : Trial in Carroll's original defamation suitOn Jan. 26, 2024, a second jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to Carroll for defaming her in June 2019 when she initially came forward with her story.
22% : Appeals court denies Trump's attempt at asserting immunityAs one of his final strategies to avoid going to trial in the remaining case, Trump had mounted an effort to assert immunity in the case on his own without the Justice Department.
16% : They soon ended up in a dressing room, and once inside, Carroll says Trump sexually assaulted her.
16% : When New York's Adult Survivors Act went into effect on Nov. 24, 2022, giving plaintiffs a one-year lookback window to bring those claims, Carroll the same day sued Trump again.
15% : "On the White House South Lawn the next day, a reporter asked Trump about Carroll's accusations as he headed outside to board Marine One.
15% : Trump found automatically liable in first case/defamation suitKaplan on Sept. 8, 2023, ruled that Trump was liable for defaming Carroll because his denials were automatically false and defamatory under the previous jury's verdict.
11% : May 2023: Jury finds Trump liable for sexual batteryAfter Trump's various efforts to toss Carroll's second lawsuit failed, the case headed to trial.
9% : Longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has now taken former President Trump to civil trial two times, winning tens of millions in damages after a legal battle that began in 2019 when she accused Trump of sexual assault.
6% : Carroll comes forward, Trump immediately denies claimsOn June 21, 2019, New York magazine published an excerpt from Carroll's forthcoming book, "What Do We Need Men For?""Hideous Men: Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago.

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