The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Donald Trump is due to testify on Wednesday in a defamation case launched in 2019 by a former journalist, E. Jean Carroll, who accuses the former president of the United States of having raped her in the 1990s. The former president must produce his testimony in New York justice from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to the New York Times.
A Manhattan federal court judge on Oct. 12 denied Trump’s request to postpone his deposition again, as the former head of state has consistently challenged the defamation suit for three years. It is not known if E. Jean Carroll testified last Friday, as the judge had planned. None of the lawyers of the two parties responded to AFP’s requests.
E. Jean Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, attacked Donald Trump in a civil attack in November 2019 in New York. She accused him of defaming her for calling a “complete lie”, in June 2019, his accusations of rape in a dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s. The Republican president, then in office (2017-2021), said he had never met her and that she was “not his kind of woman”.
New attack on Truth Social
The defamation suit was delayed by procedural battles. According to several media on Tuesday, the former president’s lawyers have always maintained that their client was protected by his immunity. But as noted by the site Vice News, the businessman delivered a new diatribe on October 12 on his social network Truth Social, making fun of the accusations of rape of E. John Carroll.
Thus, according to lawyers quoted by Vice News, the plaintiff could argue that Donald Trump defamed her again, this time as a private citizen. In his October 12 order, Judge Kaplan indicated that E. Jean Carroll could seek damages from Donald Trump for the alleged rape, once a New York State law comes into force on November 24 allowing for bring a civil complaint without taking into account the limitation periods.
Source: 20minutes
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