A US judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid to throw out E Jean Carroll's defamation claim from next month's high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Trump's claim that"absolute litigation privilege" immunised the former president for allegedly defaming Carroll last 12 October on his Truth Social media platform by denying the rape occurred.The scheduled 25 April trial relates to Trump's alleged rape of Carroll in late 1995 or early 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
The post substantively repeated many comments Trump made in June 2019 at the White House, which prompted a still-pending lawsuit by Carroll five months later. "Instead," Kaplan wrote,"it is an amalgamation of Mr. Trump's personal views and comments on a wide range of subjects, including the legal system of the United States and of New York, this court, Ms Carroll and her rape accusation against him, CNN and its journalist Anderson Cooper, and Ms. Carroll's counsel.
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