NEW YORK (NEWSnet/AP) — Former President Donald Trump is trying to turn the tables on the advice columnist who won a $5 million jury award against him in a sexual abuse lawsuit.

In a countersuit, Trump says she owes him money and a retraction for continuing to insist she was raped, even after a jury declined to agree.

Lawyers filed papers late Tuesday saying E. Jean Carroll should pay Trump unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and retract her damaging statements.

The countersuit comes a month after Carroll’s lawyers filed a rewritten defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 million more from Trump regarding comments he made after the jury verdict in May.

The jury concluded that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store dressing room in spring 1996. It also found he defamed her in comments he made denying the attack. The jury rejected Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her. Trump said the department store encounter did not occur.

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