Donald Trump testified towards a lady who filed a defamation case towards him after he denied raping her.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 20, 2022 09:03 IST
A New York-based recommendation columnist had filed a defamation case towards former US President Donald Trump after he denied her allegations that he raped her. (File photograph)
By India Today Web Desk: Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday testified towards E Jean Carroll, a New York-based recommendation columnist who alleged that she was raped by him. Carroll had filed a defamation lawsuit after Trump denied her rape allegations.
Earlier, Trump’s legal professionals sought to postpone the courtroom proceedings, citing an “undue burden” on being subjected to questioning beneath oath. Further, his legal professionals stated Trump is shielded from Carroll’s lawsuit by a federal regulation which offers immunity to authorities workers from defamation claims.
WHAT IS THE CASE?
E Jean Carroll got here out in June 2019 alleging that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan division retailer within the mid-Nineties.
Carroll wrote in her guide ‘What do we’d like males for?’ that what began as a pleasant encounter with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman in 1995 or 1996 become one thing sinister as the actual property mogul pushed her up towards a dressing room wall, unzipped his pants and compelled himself on her.
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Trump had denied the allegations and stated Carroll was “not my type.” Further, he stated he had by no means seen the girl earlier than and that the accusation was “fake news”.
Five months after he denied her allegations, Carroll sued Trump in Manhattan federal courtroom.
In a response to the lawsuit, Trump stated the courts ought to have thrown out the lawsuit. Alina Habba, an legal professional for Trump beforehand referred to as the case “entirely without merit.”
She had alleged that the case was a “political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump”.
In a continuation of the case, Carroll stated she additionally plans to sue Trump on November 24 for battery and inflicting emotional misery.
(With enter from Reuters)
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Oct 20, 2022
