{"id":23774,"date":"2022-10-19T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2022-10-19T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:22:21","slug":"trump-questioned-under-oath-over-rape-accusers-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/10\/19\/trump-questioned-under-oath-over-rape-accusers-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump questioned under oath over rape accuser’s defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former US President Donald Trump has answered questions under oath in a lawsuit brought against him by an advice columnist who says he raped her.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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E Jean Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump denied the claim and said Ms Carroll was lying, prompting her to file a defamation lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Carroll’s attorney did not release details of the deposition, but said it took place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A civil trial in the case is scheduled for 6 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re pleased that on behalf of our client, E Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump’s deposition today,” a spokesperson for law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We are not able to comment further.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement: “As we have said all along, my client was pleased to set the record straight today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“This case is nothing more than a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is unclear what Mr Trump said during the deposition, or whether he spoke in person or remotely. According to CNN, he participated from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a 2019 article for New York magazine, Ms Carroll – a longtime Elle advice columnist – said she had a chance encounter with Mr Trump in late 1995 or early 1996 at the department store Bergdorf Goodman.<\/p>\n

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She said she was helping him pick out a gift and the two of them ended up in a dressing room, where she alleges that he raped her. She says she was 52 and he was around 50, and Mr Trump was married to Marla Maples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the time, Ms Carroll also said she told two friends about the incident. One advised her to go to the police, but the other warned her to keep quiet, saying: “Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump quickly dismissed the allegation, accusing Ms Carroll of lying to sell her book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She then filed a defamation lawsuit against Mr Trump while he was US president, saying his comments had harmed her reputation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump’s lawyers tried to delay the deposition, but Judge Lewis A Kaplan of the federal court in Manhattan last week denied the request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump had responded to that legal setback by taking to social media to say “this ‘Ms Bergdorf Goodman’ case is a complete con job”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More than a dozen women have previously made sexual misconduct allegations against Mr Trump, which he has denied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last month, Ms Carroll’s lawyers said she intends to sue Mr Trump a second time under a new law that gives adult sexual assault victims a one-time opportunity to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations has expired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She plans to file the new lawsuit on 24 November, her attorney said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is the latest in a string of legal challenges facing Mr Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Among other cases, he is facing allegations of fraud by New York prosecutors, who filed a lawsuit against him in September, and is being investigated by the Department of Justice for removing allegedly classified government documents from the White House and storing them at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing in all cases.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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