E. Jean Carroll responds to DOJ probe: ‘I did not commit perjury’

E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused President Trump of sexual assault, responded to a reported Department of Justice (DOJ) probe on her Substack on Thursday, shooting down the idea she lied while under oath.

“I will just tell you that I did not commit perjury. I did, however, vacuum the Hovel and scrub the toilet in the event the chaps who showed up at my door to cart me away needed to use the john,” Carroll wrote in her Thursday post.

On May 27, CNN first reported that the DOJ was investigating whether the writer committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president.

The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew Boutros, issued a statement claiming that was false.

“In light of wide-spread reporting and intense media and public interest into the E. Jean Carroll matter in New York, the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office can confirm that it has not opened—and has never opened—a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll,” Boutros said in a statement on the social platform X. “Any claim to the contrary is categorically false.”

In her Substack post, Carroll said that “because Trump and the DOJ picked on the wrong old woman … and because there was such a screaming, banging outcry, the boys have backed up and say there is no investigation.”

“We will see,” she added.

Carroll twice sued the president in civil court for sexual assault and defamation. The president denies her claims and wants the Supreme Court to toss both verdicts.

The first jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million. That verdict also found he later defamed the writer in a 2022 statement. A second jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defaming Carroll in denying her story when she first came forward.

Trump has contested the second payment, claiming presidential immunity, and has taken his fight to the Supreme Court. A federal appeals court last month agreed Trump could continue holding off paying Carroll until the Supreme Court decides whether it will get involved.

During Trump’s second term, the DOJ has launched criminal investigations into multiple purported Trump rivals, including New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook.

The Hill has reached out to the DOJ for comment.