The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the writer E. Jean Carroll. That’s according to The New York Times and CNN, who report the inquiry is looking into whether Carroll committed perjury in a 2022 deposition during her civil lawsuits against Trump. The investigation comes despite a 2024 ruling by a federal appeals court panel in New York that dismissed claims E. Jean Carroll committed perjury. In 2019, Carroll published a memoir describing an encounter in the 1990s when she says Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store. When Trump denied the account, Carroll sued him and won $5 million in damages, with a unanimous New York jury finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. After Trump made disparaging remarks about Carroll, she sued him again and won a second defamation judgment for over $83 million. Federal courts have upheld both verdicts, though on Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court deferred its decision on whether to hear President Trump’s appeal of the $5 million civil verdict. It was the 12th time the Supreme Court has deferred the appeal. We’ll have more on this story later in the broadcast.