AT LAST: How E. Jean Carroll can bring Trump to justice with a new NY law
VINNIE LONGOBARDO

Add one more legal bombshell to the multitude of lawsuits currently being navigated by Donald Trump and his bevy of D-list attorneys. E. Jean Carroll, the Elle magazine journalist who is already suing Trump for defamation, just announced that she filing to sue him for sexual battery under New York State’s newly passed Adult Survivors Act, which gives adult accusers in the state a one-year time period to file civil claims over past alleged sexual misconduct despite how long ago it occurred.

Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her in the dressing room of New York City’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid 1990s. She chose not to report or prosecute the crime when it occurred, but revealed the incident in a 2019 New York magazine article over 20 years later — after Trump had wormed his way into the White House.

Trump naturally denied Carroll’s allegations, saying that she was “totally lying” and that he knew “nothing about her,” while snidely commenting that Carroll was “not his type.”

While it was by then too late under existing New York State statutes of limitations to press charges for the sexual assault that Carroll declines to describe as ...

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