The former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021) presides over the list of witnesses in a civil trial in a lawsuit against him for defamation filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who maintains that he raped her in the 1990s, in a process that is planned start on april 25 in NY and that it lasts for a week.
The list of witnesses also includes the well-known CNN journalist Anderson Cooper and the editor of New York magazine, David Haskell, who interviewed the complainant, and a friend of Carroll’s to whom she told about the alleged rape, which would have occurred in the changing rooms of the Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue, in the mid-1990s.
Carroll, who is accusing him in this case for defamation (not for rape, which is seen in another case), is also a potential witness, according to legal documents filed in court on Thursday and cited by the media.
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Trump is facing trial with a new lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, who has indicated today, in a twist in this case, that his client is willing to provide his DNA to see if it matches the sample found on Carroll’s dress, who claims not to have washed the piece ever since.
However, he has set a condition: that they be given “immediately” the missing pages of the DNA report that were made prior to the dress, before the former president handed over his DNA, the Law & Crime newspaper notes.
Tacopina has pointed out in a letter to Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over the case, that pages are missing from the DNA report attached to Carroll’s original lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in 2020.
In January 2020, Carroll’s lawyer had asked the then president to submit “to a physical examination” to provide a “sample of buccal, blood or skin cells” for DNA.
The former president’s defense also indicated in the letter that the writer is “using the DNA report to litigate this case in public and insinuate that Trump’s DNA is on the dress.”
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The 79-year-old author, who also gave the court her list of witnesses, is in a legal battle for defamation against Trump, 76, after he denied having raped her and had pronounced what he considers “false accusations” about her after publishing her account of the alleged incident in a book and a magazine article in 2019.
Added to this lawsuit is another for the alleged rape, which Carroll filed last November when the new New York Adult Survivors Law came into force, which opens a one-year period in the state to seek justice for sexual crimes that have been prescribed until now. .
The judge has yet to say whether he will consolidate the two lawsuits that Carroll has filed against Trump.
Source: EFE
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