(New York) Donald Trump will testify on Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit initiated in 2019 by a former journalist, E. Jean Carroll, who accuses the former US president of raping her in the 1990s.
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A Manhattan federal court judge on October 12 denied Mr. Trump’s request to postpone his testimony before American courts, the former head of state systematically contesting this action for three years.
On Wednesday, New York judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Ms.myself Carroll, 78, and Donald Trump, 76, were to be held on October 14 and 19, respectively.
The former president must then produce his testimony on Wednesday before New York justice from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to the New York Times.
We do not know if M.myself Carroll testified on Friday and none of the lawyers on either side responded to AFP’s solicitations.
Plaintiff, defended by Roberta Kaplan, tweeted “GOOD LUCK ROBBIE KAPLAN FOR TOMORROW” on Tuesday titled “Carroll vs. Trump” with a photo of her attorney, but deleted her tweet in the evening.
In this libel case, E. Jean Carroll, former magazine columnist Ellehad attacked Donald Trump in civilian in November 2019 in New York.
She accused him of slandering her for calling her rape allegations in a New York department store locker room in the mid-1990s a “complete lie” in June 2019.
The Republican president, then in office (2017-2021), said he had never met her and that “she was not his kind of woman”.
The libel suit was delayed by procedural battles, including whether Donald Trump should be represented by the US government, as he was president at the time of the contested statements.
According to multiple media outlets on Tuesday, the former president’s attorneys always said their client was protected by his immunity, particularly for the defamatory remarks he allegedly made during his tenure.
But as the Vice News website notes, the businessman made a new diatribe on October 12 on his social network Truth Social, mocking E. John Carroll’s rape allegations.
Therefore, according to the lawyers quoted by Vice News, the complainant could argue that Mr. Trump, this time as a private individual, has again defamed her.
And, 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 goes into effect on November 24. account of the statute of limitations.
