Donald Trump is already the first former president to be indicted in a criminal case. Now there is a civil case pending over whether he lied about the rape.
The case relates to one of two that a former Elle magazine journalist brought against Trump after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s.
E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit is scheduled to go to a federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Trump may be required to pay her damages if the jury is satisfied that there is a likelihood of her being defamed by a message on his social platform Truth Social in October 2022.
The former president called Carroll’s rape allegation a “hoax and a lie”, aiming to promote the value of her memoir. Trump added that she was “not my type”.
Simple room
The 79-year-old Carroll maintains that Trump raped her at the Bergdorf Goodman store in midtown Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996. Her account is that Trump asked for help buying a gift for another woman, but he “manipulated” her into doing so. The fitting room where the alleged rape took place.
Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019. She has long maintained that the former president did his best to coach the case. But now New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan has rejected all attempts by the Trump camp to delay the case further.
– Barbara McQuade says Trump has every possible interest in reaching a settlement to avoid making public and publishing the details, true or false.
—but Carol may come to the conclusion that she’d rather publish her story than enter into a settlement, almost no matter how big the amount is, McQuade says.
She is a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former attorney in Detroit.
do not meet
The 76-year-old Trump is not required to appear in court in person. This will be cleared up along the way, his attorney, Joe Tacopina, said in a letter earlier in April. Carol explained that she appears every day in court.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment on the proceedings. Not related to Judge Kaplan. Trump’s lawyers also declined to comply with Reuters’ requests for comment on the case.
It is unclear whether Trump will enter into any compromise. He has previously bragged that he never settles down, though he does on occasion.
case after case
Carroll’s case is one of several pending cases against Trump in the legal system. It does not seem that any of the two issues has affected his chances of winning the Republican candidate in the presidential elections next year.
Last year, Trump refused to allow his business firm, The Trump Organization, to plead guilty in a New York tax fraud case. The case ended in a conviction, but the appeal has yet to be heard.
The indictment against Trump in a criminal case relates, among other things, to the improper bookkeeping of payment of so-called hush money. The most famous case involved $130,000 in pornographic actor Stormy Daniels.
He is also being investigated in another case in New York for financial fraud. Trump also has a lawsuit pending related to the events of January 6, 2021 and the storming of Congress, and he is being investigated in Georgia for attempting to manipulate election results in the state after the 2020 election.
The former boss recently hired Takubina. Together with Alina Habba, he will take up the defense in the Carroll Case and the Stormy Daniels bribery case.
In the courtroom, the defense is expected to challenge Carroll’s memory and the fact that she is unable to recall the date or month of the alleged assault. The jury will have between six and twelve members, but one doubt is enough for Trump to avoid paying damages.
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