E. Jean Carroll seeks increased damages from Trump over CNN insults.

Donald Trump launched a fresh defamatory attack on E Jean Carroll after her lawyers formally asked to amend her remaining defamation lawsuit against the ex-president to include his smears at a CNN town hall. Ms Carroll sued the former president for defamation after he angrily denied allegations in her 2019 memoir that he had sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. On 9 May the jury deliberating over the lawsuit awarded Ms Carroll $5m in damages after finding she had proved the case on a preponderous of evidence.