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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.
Trump receives support from attorneys from the Justice Department.
(sda / dpa)
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.
E. Jean Carroll
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.”
