Scandal-ridden former President Donald J. Trump has officially been deposed in the ongoing defamation lawsuit lodged against him by his alleged rape victim, renowned writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, according to multiple breaking reports on confirmation statements from Carroll’s team of legal representatives.
Recently, Trump learned that U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan is absolutely fed up with his cat-and-mouse games in the defamation suit brought against him by Carroll, who has accused the now-former president of raping her in the dressing room of a ritzy, upscale department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. Trump immediately denied these allegations, which broke during his presidency, and wasted no time in smearing and defaming his alleged victim, going so far as to publicly and verbally attack Carroll’s physical appearance and claim that the accusations are impossible because Carroll isn’t his “type.” Trump’s public smear campaign resulted in the now-ongoing defamation case against him, and Donald and his legal team have spent their defense doing little more than desperately trying to run out the clock or bury the case in a seemingly neverending series of delay tactics meant to stall the lawsuit and avoid the former president being questioned by Carroll’s team of attorneys. However, Judge Kaplan said enough is enough.
Last week, Kaplan handed down a brutal ruling that ordered Trump to sit for the deposition on October 19th.
Trump, of course, didn’t take well to this order, taking to his Truth Social platform where he called the lawsuit a “complete con job” and went on to fume, “It is a Hoax and a lie, just like all the other Hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years. And, while I am not supposed to say it, I will. This woman is not my type!”
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Notice that Trump chose to utilize the very same public insult that landed him in this lawsuit in the first place.
But in the end, none of that saved him from what was coming.
Multiple news outlets, including CNBC, are now out with new reports confirming that Trump’s reign of outrunning questioning from Carroll’s legal team has come to an end.
The specific timing and location of the ex-president’s deposition today were not made readily available and Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, did not respond to requests for comments on the development.
According to various reporting, Carroll herself was set to be deposed in the case last Friday.
As it stands, Trump’s legal team has an appeal pending. However, even if the appeal is successful, or the trial is once again put on hold, multiple reports have recently confirmed that Trump’s alleged rape victim will still be moving forward with a lawsuit against the ex-president in New York state court next month, utilizing a new law for sexual abuse and assault survivors that did away with the statute of limitations for allegations of rape and sexual abuse.
Carroll’s legal team confirmed that today’s deposition of the former president could be used in that upcoming case.
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