U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York granted E. Jean Carroll’s motion to dismiss President Donald Trump’s counterclaim for defamation Monday, finding that Carroll’s statements about Trump were substantially true.

Trump filed the counterclaim in June, one month after a Manhattan federal jury awarded Carroll $5 million and found in favor of her defamation and sexual abuse claims in her 2022 lawsuit. The counterclaim was filed as part of Carroll’s 2019 defamation lawsuit, which targets Trump’s original denial of her sexual assault claim. Trial is scheduled for January.