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meIn a trial that was triggered by a rape accusation against Donald Trump, the US Department of Justice intervened on the president’s side in a surprising legal maneuver. Author E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of defamation in a lawsuit filed in November 2019. In an excerpt from a book published in the summer of 2019, she wrote that Trump had raped her in a New York department store in mid-November. 1990s.
Trump rejected the accusation: He said in an interview in the White House Oval Office, firstly, Carroll wasn’t his type, and secondly, that never happened. Carroll complained because he portrayed her as a liar and thus slandered her. Among other things, she asked for a DNA sample from Trump to match traces from a dress she wore that day.
The U.S. Justice Department argued in a motion filed Tuesday in a New York court that Trump made his comments about Carroll’s allegations in the course of his tenure as president. Therefore, under a law on the liability of government employees, the United States would have to intervene as a defendant of Trump as a private person. The president’s private attorneys should be replaced by government attorneys. Carroll’s attorney criticized the motion as an “unprecedented attempt to use the power of government to evade responsibility for private misconduct.” The procedure shows how far Trump is willing to go to suppress the truth. Carroll wrote on Twitter: “Trump throws Bill Barr at me.”
The case will now be immediately negotiated by state court in federal court. Carrol’s attorney has to file a motion there to return the case. If the court accepted the Justice Department’s request, the process for Carroll would have gone as smoothly as the “New York Times” quotes a Texas law professor. The New York court recently rejected Trump’s lawyers’ motion to end the trial, arguing that, as president, Trump was immune from civil charges. Trump could possibly have been forced to submit a DNA sample. That could be compared to one of the dresses Carroll was wearing on the day of the alleged incident. A statement from the president was also possible.
This is not the first time the Justice Department and Secretary Bill Barr have intervened on behalf of the president. For example, he requested the closure of the case against the president’s first security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Barr publicly summarized the report of special counsel Robert Mueller in what a federal judge later described as “forged” and “misleading.”
More than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual assault in the period before he assumed the presidency. You can hear a sound recording from 2005 of how the then real estate mogul bragged to a television host that she could touch women by the genitals with impunity because she was famous.
