Former President Donald Trump , who was found liable last month for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll , countersued the writer on Tuesday, alleging that comments she made after the trial were defamatory.

A jury in the initial case sided with Carrolls claims that Trump sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman store in the 1990s. He has now countersued over her subsequent comments, including an interview on CNN the day after the jury made its decision.

When asked about her thoughts when the jury did not find Trump liable for rape, Carroll said, I just immediately say in my own head, Oh, yes, he did.

Trump alleged in his countersuit that Carrolls statements were made with actual malice and ill will with an intent to significantly and spitefully harm and attack his image. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York.

Trumps filing is thus nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability for what a jury has already found to be his defamation of E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told The New York Times . But whether he likes it or not, that accountability is coming.

The author first publicly accused Trump of rape in an excerpt from her 2019 book What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal. Carroll was the 16th woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

Trump has repeatedly denied Carrolls allegations and said hes never met this person, despite having been photographed with her in the 80s. He decried her account as a con job and a hoax.