Donald Trump wins ruling in rape accuser Carroll's defamation lawsuit

Former US President Donald Trump attends a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US, September 3, 2022.NEW YORK - A federal appeals court set aside a judge's ruling that Donald Trump could be sued for defamation by E. Jean Carroll after denying he raped her, though it stopped short of declaring the former US president immune from the author's lawsuit.

A dissenting judge, Denny Chin, would have let Carroll pursue "at least some" claims, saying "Carroll's allegations plausibly paint a picture of a man pursuing a personal vendetta against an accuser."She had accused Trump in a June 2019 book excerpt of having raped her in late 1995 or early 1996 in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in midtown Manhattan.

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said in a statement she was "confident" the District of Columbia court would let the case proceed. He also said letting the case proceed could unleash a flood of frivolous lawsuits whenever presidents spoke. "We do not pass judgment or express any view as to whether Trump's public statements were indeed defamatory or whether the sexual assault allegations had, in fact, occurred," he wrote.

The case became more complex in 2020 when the Department of Justice, acting at the behest of then-Attorney General William Barr, sought to substitute the government as the sole defendant.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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