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Rape complaint against Trump and, suddenly, the US justice intervenes for him
In a trial that was sparked by a rape accusation against Donald Trump, the US Justice Department 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 was not 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 United States Department of Justice now argued in a motion filed Tuesday (local time) in a New York court that Trump made his comments on Carroll’s allegations as part of his job as president of the United States. 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. Carroll’s attorney criticized the motion as an “unprecedented attempt to use the power of the United States government to evade responsibility for private misconduct.” (aeg / sda / dpa)
