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Trump being deposed in rape defamation lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll


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Former President Donald Trump will be removed from office on Wednesday for a civil lawsuit accusing him of defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of raping her.

Trump on October 12 lost the case to delay being questioned under oath by Carroll’s attorneys when a federal judge set aside arguments that an appeal was pending in the case warranting the adjournment.

The timing of Trump’s removal and its location was not immediately available on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Carroll’s attorney Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan said: “We do not have those details and have no comment.”

Trump’s attorney Alina Habba did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Carroll was scheduled to be disqualified last Friday.

An experiment in case it is scheduled for February.

Even if that trial is suspended or dropped altogether as a result of a pending appeal, Carroll plans to sue 76-year-old Trump in New York state court next month under new laws that lift the statute of limitations. compensation claim. rape and sexual abuse.

Carroll’s attorneys could use Wednesday’s removal of Trump in that planned case.

The deposition comes two months later Trump refused to answer questions while taking the oath in an order ousting lawyers against New York Attorney General Letitia James in connection with a civil investigation into his company, the Trump Organization. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination more than 440 times during that removal.

James last month sued Trump, his company, his three adult children and others, an allegation of widespread fraud involving allegedly false financial statements relating to the company’s business. James is seeking at least $250 million in damages in that case, as well as sanctions.

Carroll, 78, wrote in a 2019 New York magazine article that Trump raped her in the dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s after a chance encounter in shop.

Trump, who was president at the time of the article, replied that Carroll lied and was motivated by money and political considerations to create the account.

Carroll then sued Trump for defamation in New York state court.

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Case a year later transferred to the United States District Court in Manhattan such as the Justice Department, then under the control of Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr, sought to replace Trump as defendant in the case. The department argued that because Trump was president at the time he was accused of defaming Carroll, the government had the right to intervene and act as a defendant because he was a government employee.

If the DOJ were allowed to do so, it would effectively end the case. Under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the federal government has the power to deny plaintiffs the right to sue.

Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the DOJ’s bid.

“The President of the United States is not an employee of the Government in the sense of the relevant statutes,” Kaplan said in a ruling.

Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll’s attorney, wrote: “Even if he were such an employee, President Trump’s alleged defamatory statements regarding Ms. for his work”.

The DOJ appealed Kaplan’s ruling.

In September, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Kaplan’s ruling on the question of whether Trump was acting as a government employee at the time he responded to Carroll’s article. But the appeals court also asked its sister appeals court in Washington, DC, to rule on whether Trump made claims about Carroll within the scope of his job, as required by local law. District of Columbia.

The DC federal appeals court has yet to rule on that question.

Kaplan, in his decision last week, said that Trump has no right to delay his impeachment pending the results in a DC court because he has not shown the strong likelihood of success required for the question. there.

Kaplan also wrote that there is reason to believe that Trump continues to engage in delaying tactics in the litigation and that the “advanced age” of both Trump and Carroll is reason not to delay further action in the case.

Kaplan wrote: “The defendant is not allowed to run out of time as the plaintiff seeks redress for what is alleged to be egregious wrongdoing.

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