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 if 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........

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