Trump Is Guaranteeing Himself a New Defamation Lawsuit

George Conway: “The fact that Trump libeled E. Jean Carroll on CNBC is highly significant for a procedural reason in addition to a substantive one. Were she to sue Trump just for the speech he gave in northwest Georgia the other day, she probably would have had to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. But now that he libeled her on Squawk Box, which is anchored in Manhattan, she likely may now sue in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.”

“If she does that, the case would be assigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan as a case related to the earlier two cases that produced $88.3 million in damages awards.”