Trump’s defamation countersuit against E. Jean Carroll tossed by NY federal judge who finds rape claims ‘substantially true’

Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against accuser E. Jean Carroll was tossed Monday by a federal judge — in a ruling finding the writer’s statements that the former president raped her “were substantially true.”

Trump, 77, brought the counterclaims against E. Jean Carroll, 79, in June, arguing she falsely accused him of rape after a Manhattan federal jury only found him liable for sexual abuse in her civil case against him.

“The jury’s finding that Mr. Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms. Carroll implicitly determine the he forcibly penetrated her digitally — in other words, that Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law,” Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in the decision.