New York: In a new court filing on Monday, E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who defeated former President Donald Trump and won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against him, is requesting at least $10 million more in damages in order to hold him accountable for comments he made following the decision.

Carroll's attorneys filed an amended lawsuit in Manhattan seeking the $10 million in compensatory damages as well as additional punitive damages, claiming that Trump's comments in response to her rape allegations so damaged Carroll's reputation that she was forced to resign from her longtime position as an Elle magazine advice columnist.

He "doubled down" on disparaging remarks about Carroll at a cable television appearance the day after the verdict, they claimed in the rewritten lawsuit.

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"Trump's defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice towards Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will, or spite," the attorneys wrote. "This conduct supports a very significant punitive damages award in Carroll's favour to punish Trump, to deter him from continuing his defamatory conduct, and to deter others from doing the same."

Trump was found guilty of sexually abusing Carroll at a posh Manhattan department store in the early spring of 1996 by a nine-person jury two weeks ago.

Carroll, who testified at the trial, first made her allegations that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in a book published in 2019. The jury found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll despite Carroll's inability to establish that she had been raped.

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Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina declined to respond to the fresh allegations.
The attorneys added the new allegations to a defamation lawsuit that had been put on hold while an appeals court deliberated whether to hold Trump accountable for comments he made in 2019 while he was still in office. 

His attorneys' argument that the United States ought to be the defendant has been backed by the US Justice Department.

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Carroll's attorneys claimed in the new claim that Trump, "undeterred by the jury's verdict, persisted in maliciously defaming Carroll yet again" the following day at a CNN "town hall" event.

"He reiterated his earlier false claims, telling a crowd that was only too eager to applaud him that 'I never met this woman. Trump claimed that Carroll's account, which had just been confirmed by a jury of Trump's peers the day before, was a "fake," "made up story" created by a "whack job," that he did not sexually assault Carroll, and that he had never seen Carroll. On live television, the audience cheered and applauded enthusiastically in response to those remarks," the attorneys wrote