Because while Trump was serving as president, E.J. Addressing and denying the allegations made by Jean Carroll, Bair said the federal government is allowed to take action.
The attorney general also said politics was responsible for the Justice Department’s response to those who paid for Trump’s defense and killed the lawsuit.
“This was a general application of the law. The law is clear. It is done frequently. And the hurricane that is going on is largely due to the strange political environment in which we live,” Barry said at a news conference in Chicago.
“Officers who are elected and respond to the press when they are in office, even if those questions relate to their personal activity, and can tolerate their personal fitness, are in fact during federal employment, and therefore can be certified under it. Wastefall Act, ”Bair said.
Carol, a PE columnist for Elle Magazine, said Trump lied to her after she accused him of sexual harassment.
“President Trump knows I was right when I said he sexually assaulted me in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman. He also knows he lied when he said he had never met me before. And I wasn’t. That’s kind of it, “Carroll said in a statement on Tuesday.
Steven Vladek, a CNN legal analyst and professor of law at the University of Texas, said Barr’s comments were misleading when it came to the president.
“Yes, the DOJ wants to take ‘frequent’ terrorism claims against federal workers,” Vladek said. “
The lawsuit was filed in November, and a New York judge ruled last month that the lawsuit against Trump could go ahead. Carroll is also demanding that Trump provide a DNA sample to compare with the male genetic material found on the black Donna Karan dress that Carroll says he wore during the alleged encounter at Bergdorf.
A person familiar with Trump’s legal team said the Justice Department’s move in the case opens the way for additional legal defense of the lawsuits against Trump, arguing that the federal government cannot be sued for defamation.
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