An American journalist, E. Jean Carroll, who accuses Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s, Thursday revived her civil case against the former US president, thanks to a new New York law that protects victims of sexual assault.
A dual court case alleging rape and defamation has pitted Ms. Carroll, 78, against Mr. Trump, 76, in federal civil court in Manhattan since 2019, both of whom produced their sworn statements in October before a New Yorker judge .
In the defamation lawsuit, E. Jean Carroll, an author and former columnist for Elle magazine, sued Donald Trump in November 2019. She accused him of defaming her for calling “complete lie“, in June 2019, his allegations of rape in a dressing room of a New York department store in 1995 or 1996.
The then-incumbent Republican president (2017-2021) replied that he had never met her and that she was “not his type of woman“His lawyers have also always said he was protected in 2019 by his immunity as head of state.
