336Robin Loc: North Carolina

Apparently Donald Trump has a first as the first President ever accused of rape. Interesting that E. Jean Carroll requested his dna at the first and not his deposition. So if there is no match then he's off the hook.

I wonder how the court is going to rule, given the fact that they are going to make him testify under oath in another case?

It's just more Trump drama. Probably nothing to it. She probably thought it was just a little wind whipping by!




Associated Press
Donald Trump's DNA, not deposition sought in defamation suit


Columnist E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court Tuesday Feb. 22, 2022, in New York. Carroll, who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him, will not seek to depose him prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but she added that a DNA sample was still being sought. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)


ASSOCIATED PRESS
LARRY NEUMEISTER
Tue, February 22, 2022, 6:21 PM


NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him said Tuesday she will not seek to depose Trump prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but added that a DNA sample was still being sought.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan first made the revelation in Manhattan federal court during a pretrial hearing before explaining the decision to reporters outside the court as her client, E. Jean Carroll, stood by her side.

A deposition, Kaplan said, would “inevitably result in an inordinate amount of delay.”

“We want the case to go forward,” she said.

Attorney Alina Habba, who represented Trump at the hearing, said outside court that she had not previously heard that Carroll's lawyers did not want a deposition, a proceeding in which lawyers in civil cases question likely witnesses under oath prior to trial.

“It's surprising,” Habba said.

As for a DNA sample, Habba said: “None has been demanded.”

Kaplan, though, said the DNA sample had been requested after the case was first filed in state court, and the demand still exists after it was moved to federal court.

She said she would be “more than perfectly happy” to wait to interview Trump at trial, which she estimated could occur in as little as six months, after some near-term legal obstacles are cleared.

The Associated Press generally does not identify people alleging sexual assault, but Carroll has consented to being named in the media.

She told reporters outside court that she was looking forward to the trial on behalf of all women “who have been grabbed and groped, assaulted and raped by men in power and are silenced.”

“And we are looking to bring justice, at least in this one case, against a powerful man,” she said.

Carroll said she would “never settle, never.”

“This is about principle. It's about a powerful man assaulting and raping a woman and then getting away with it. That's not right,” she said.

Carroll in a June 2019 book said Trump raped her in the mid-1990s in an upscale Manhattan department store.

The book excerpt prompted Trump to deny the allegations and question Carroll’s credibility and motivations in a statement from his White House press office, comments in an Oval Office interview and statements to the media as he boarded a helicopter for Camp David.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule eventually on Trump’s request that the United States take his place as the defendant in the lawsuit. The U.S. Justice Department has asserted that Trump cannot be held personally liable for “crude and disrespectful” remarks he made about Carroll because his remarks were made as he was carrying out his duties as president.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presided over Tuesday's hearing, ruled last October that Trump cannot use a law protecting federal employees from being sued individually for things they do within the scope of their employment.

He also has rejected a request by Trump's attorneys that the progression of the lawsuit, including depositions, be delayed until the 2nd Circuit rules on whether Trump can be replaced as the defendant.

On Tuesday, the judge seemed to have little patience for arguments by Trump's lawyers saying that Trump should be able to countersue Carroll under a law sometimes used to challenge defamation lawsuits that unfairly make claims.

“I question whether you have the right to do what you want to do,” he said, noting that the lawyers were seeking to countersue more than a year after the case was filed.

American Vet

>>>>>Apparently Donald Trump has a first as the first President ever accused of rape

Par for the course, you are wrong.

https://www.salon.com/2015/02/08/the_7_biggest_p**********l_sex_scandals_in_history_partner/

microphor Loc: Home is TN

This isn't trump drama, this is Democrat drama. The democrats keep this s**t going because they fear trump will run again in the future plus he knows what they're up to

jelun

None of those tales are about rape, but, don't let that get in your way. Well, maybe Thomas Jefferson.

jelun

Really? Somebody with a brain would have just let description of the encounter pass but the Loser had to keep it going, and so the lawsuit.
This is purely Trump stupidity and drama.
Few people knew who E. Jean Carroll was and fewer would have bought her book if he could just be the typical abuser and hide in a corner.

the waker Loc: 11th freest nation

Great, how many more millions will be spent on B.S. lawsuits that are designed to distract the politically nieve from the follies of the Democrat Party?

American Vet

You might try reading the article. Or have someone help you with it.

But, I will give you a hand.

Margie Denise Schoedinger claims that Bush brutally raped and kidnapped her and her husband and drugged them both, in December of 2002 in Sugarland, Texas and that he threatened to k**l her.

vernon

Hey woodgurur, why don't you give us a lesson on understanding the right wing mind

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

This would be plan be for the left to set up Trump for big bad news coverages prior to upcoming e******ns. Plan A is the tax lawsuits.

microphor Loc: Home is TN

It's never ending. That's why I don't believe a word the left says.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I know, it is one thing after another and as you say, never ending. They have no credibility.

Ricktloml

Has a president ever been accused of rape...yes---Bill Clinton

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

Hey you got me there!

That still doesn't make Trump not guilty.

American Vet

Join us here in America: Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

vernon

look they were saying that ny was going to get him. they were going to bring down Trump .then just yestarday
the investigators resigned because there was nothing there. now someone claims rape from 25 years ago ,its the same thing that they pulled on kavenaugh it was bs then and its bs now. When are you people going to admit the demoRATS are liars and c***ts. now he screws up the ukraine and we are close to ww111.I don't understand how people can be so ignorant as to keep believing the demoRATS crap.