What he called them · First term · № 85
Said accuser E. Jean Carroll was 'not my type'; juries later found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation
“I'll say it with great respect: Number one, she's not my type. Number two, it never happened.”
- Said
- , Interview with The Hill, White House
- Subject
- E. Jean Carroll
- Target
- Women
- Topic
- Justice & the courts
- Era
- First term
What happened
Carroll had written that Trump assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s; Trump denied it and said she was 'totally lying.' Carroll sued over his 2019 denials. On May 9, 2023, a federal jury in a separate suit found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996 (it rejected the rape claim) and for defaming her in an October 2022 Truth Social post, awarding about $5 million. On January 26, 2024, a second jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for the 2019 statements; Judge Lewis Kaplan had already ruled them defamatory. The 2nd Circuit upheld the $5 million verdict and, on September 9, 2025, the $83.3 million award. Trump called the cases a 'witch hunt' and appealed.