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Former President Donald Trump said the judge in E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit against him refused to allow his attorneys to submit evidence that Carroll’s cat was named “Vagina,” among other things, during his first reaction to the jury’s verdict against him.
The civil jury in Carroll’s defamation lawsuit found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defaming her, granting her an award of $5 million in damages.
Trump was seemingly unfazed by the jury verdict, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that after the verdict, his “poll numbers went up” during a CNN Town Hall at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm College on Wednesday evening.
Trump believes Carroll’s lawsuit against him was another example of “election interference.”
As Trump explained:
Usually, you leave office, you say, “I’m sorry, but I’m going back home. I’m back home to my family and everything. I’m going to be reserved.” My poll numbers went up, and they went up with the other fake charge too. Because what’s happening is they’re doing this for election interference. This woman, I don’t know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is.