It seems that Melania Trump was right all along about her husband, Donald Trump, missing out on a huge opportunity that has now cost him and his family more than $100 million.
The former president has found himself embroiled in a lengthy and costly lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him and Les Moonves of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.
The author revealed that the incident occurred while she was shopping at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City.
In May 2023, the journalist was awarded $5 million after a jury declared Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse.
In January 2024, a second jury found Trump liable for defamation again and awarded the writer an additional $83.3 million in damages.
Donald Trump received that brutal slap from the jury for further talking and insulting the writer after losing his first lawsuit against her.
It was previously claimed that Melania Trump wanted her husband to fight harder and better against E. Jean Carroll.
However, Trump remained true to his nature of being “a relentless, tough guy” who hurled insults and degrading comments at his enemies. He also believed that by constantly demeaning Carroll, he would drum up support for his 2024 presidential campaign.
That decision cost him millions in lawyers fees and endless humiliating court appearances. Not to mention the large sum of $88 million in damages that Trump will be forced to pay to the writer.
In a lengthy interview, Roberta Kaplan, the attorney for writer E. Jean Carroll, hinted that Melania Trump’s suggestion would have saved her husband the litany of court drama that he is currently facing.
Via POLITICO, former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori assessed that Trump had “benefited from the fact that there was a wave of women who came forward in 2016 because then he was doing blanket denials.”
Kaplan agreed that Trump should have used the same procedure. The attorney stated: “Exactly, exactly.”
Khardori responded by: “Which I imagine is much harder than defamation.” Kaplan said “exactly” and added: “E. Jean said in her deposition that she had an incident with Les Moonves once in an elevator in L.A. where he kind of pushed up against her, and she said he was like an octopus. She was asked in her deposition, in our case, ‘Why didn’t you sue Les Moonves?’The answer was that a lot of women accused him, and he just did a blanket denial—a group denial of all of them… If Donald Trump had done that here, I wouldn’t have sued him.”
While Carroll declined to sue Moonves, he was hit with multiple allegations of sexual assault and was forced to resign as CEO of CBS in 2018.
During the court battle, Carroll “also said if Donald Trump had said that it happened, but he thought she consented, she wouldn’t have sued him.”
Kaplan continued: “What was so offensive about it was the idea that she was just making it up to sell a book or two as part of a Democratic plot.”
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner weighed in on Trump’s major loss in court, saying that Carroll has done the impossible — she has been able to shut the former president up.
The law expert said via Newsweek: “Now, I know it’s only been about five or six days since the verdict. But still, even that feels like something of a record for Donald Trump. So maybe the way to shut Donald Trump up, to stop him from lying about, defaming, and indeed endangering the lives of others, is to aggressively apply the rule of law.”
Mrs. Trump is seen by many as a savvy personality.
