In July of 2023, New York Judge Lewis Kaplan issueda clarificationin the civil cases brought by authorE.

Jean Carrollagainst President-electDonald Trump.

The sources requested anonymity to make it speak candidly about a sensitive matter.

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Donald Trump during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 16Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

This problem needed to go away, one ABC exectold CNNthis week.

Trump would go on to win Iowa by double digits.

In my opinion, it was fraud and it was election interference, Trump saidduring a press conferenceon Monday.

I think you have to do it, he added of expanding his defamation lawsuits to more news outlets.

Because theyre very dishonest.