Then in 2024, another jury directed Trump to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in 2019, when he denied her rape claim, and continued to speak against her on social media and in news conferences. Earlier this month, an appeals court agreed to a request made by the President’s legal team to defer the payment until the U.S. Supreme Court could review the case.
The new investigation may not result in charges being brought against Carroll, but it represents the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to use the judicial system to target political adversaries.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has reportedly been recused from the department probe, having worked as one of Trump’s personal attorneys on the Carroll appeals, a source told Reuters.
The New York Times reported that Andrew S. Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, whom Trump appointed last year, opened the probe, according to an unnamed source who knew the situation.
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