Trump, accused of defamation, testified in court in the United States

donald trump declared this Wednesday in a case of defamation initiated in 2019 by former journalist E. Jean Carroll, who accuses the former US president of having raped her in the 1990s.

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A federal court judge Manhattan dismissed on October 12 a Trump’s request to postpone his statement to justiceafter three years filing appeals against that accusation.

And last Wednesday, New York judge Lewis Kaplan summoned Caroll, 78, and Trump, 76, to testify respectively on October 14 and 19.

“We are pleased that on behalf of our client E. Jean Carroll We were able to receive Donald Trump’s statement today.” indicated in an email to AFP the law firm Kaplan Hecker and Finkwhich represents Carroll, without further details.

According to New York Timesthe declaration of the former president, which can be made by video call between the lawyers and the justice of New Yorktook place at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

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It is not known if Carroll testified in court last Friday.

In this defamation case, E. Jean Carrolla former columnist for Elle magazine, filed a civil suit against Trump in November 2019 on New York.

The woman accuses the former president of having defamed her by calling her “complete lie” in June 2019 his accusations of having raped her in the fitting room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s.

The then Republican president (2017-2021) said that I didn’t know her and she wasn’t “her type”.

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The question of whether Trump was to be represented by the US government at trial, being president at the time of his remarksdelayed the procedural steps.

According to several media outlets on Tuesday, The former president’s lawyers have always ensured that their client was protected by his immunity, in particular for the defamatory statements he would have made during his mandate.

the digital medium vice-news claims, however, that the Republican tycoon mocked Carroll’s rape accusations on October 12 on his social network TruthSocial.

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According to lawyers quoted by vice-newsthe plaintiff could argue that Trump he has defamed her again, this time as a simple citizen.

Judge Kaplan indicated last week that Carroll could seek damages from Trump for the alleged violation since November 24, once a law of the state of New York which allows to present civil lawsuits regardless of the statute of limitations.

Source: Elcomercio

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