E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who won a $5 million sexual assault and defamation award against former President Trump, is seeking at least $10 million more in a new lawsuit filed Monday that would hold him liable for comments he made after made the verdict.

An amended lawsuit seeking $10 million in punitive damages and more in punitive damages was filed in Manhattan by attorneys for Carroll, who say Trump’s comments in response to her rape allegations have so ruined her reputation that she lost her old job as a law firm consulting firm. El lost. columnist.

They said in the rewritten lawsuit that he doubled down on derogatory comments about Carroll during a cable TV appearance a day after the verdict.

Trump’s defamatory statements after the verdict show the depth of his malice towards Carroll, as it is hard to imagine that defamatory behavior could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill-will or spite, the lawyers wrote. This behavior supports very substantial damages in Carroll’s favor, both to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.”

A nine-member jury decided two weeks ago that Trump had sexually assaulted Carroll in an upscale Manhattan department store in the early spring of 1996.

Carroll, who tested during the trial, first revealed in a 2019 book that she claims Trump raped her in a locker room. The jury decided that Carroll had not proved she had been raped, but found that Trump had sexually assaulted her.

Joe Tacopina, a Trump attorney, declined to comment on the new claims.

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The lawyers filed the new claims to amend a defamation lawsuit that had been suspended as an appeals court ruled whether Trump could be held liable for comments he made in 2019 while he was president. The US Department of Justice supports its lawyers’ claims that the United States should be replaced as the defendant.

In the new claim, Carroll’s lawyers said Trump, undeterred by the jury’s verdict, persisted in maliciously defaming Carroll “the next day at a town hall event hosted by CNN.

He repeated his previous defamatory statements, claiming to an audience only too ready to cheer him on that I had never met this woman. I never saw this woman, that he did not sexually assault Carroll, and that her account, validated the day before by a jury of Trump colleagues, was a fake, made-up story concocted by a whacker. Those statements led to enthusiastic cheers and applause from the audience on live TV, the lawyers wrote.