Just when Trump almost undoubtedly thought that life couldn’t possibly get any worse for him, POLITICO now reports on a brutal ruling handed down by a judge this afternoon, in which the corrupt, scandal-ridden ex-president has officially been ordered to sit for a deposition in the defamation lawsuit lodged against him by his alleged sexual assault and rape victim, world-renowned writer E. Jean Carroll.
Carroll, a longtime and highly-revered advice columnist for Elle magazine asserts that now ex-president Donald Trump brutally raped her in the dressing room of a ritzy, upscale department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. Donald Trump has, of course, vehemently denied these allegations and attempted to smear and defame his accuser, 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.” Carroll’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against Trump stems from his public remarks regarding the rape allegations.
Donald Trump’s legal team previously filed a request to delay the ex-president’s planned testimony. However, that request was rejected by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan today, as he ordered Trump to sit for the deposition on October 19th.
Trump’s legal team has treated this lawsuit much like they do anything else when it comes to their attempts to defend the corrupt former president by implementing a seemingly neverending series of delay tactics to stall the lawsuit and avoid the former president being questioned by Carroll’s team of attorneys. However, Judge Kaplan said enough is enough.
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“The defendant should not be permitted to run the clock out on plaintiff’s attempt to gain a remedy for what allegedly was a serious wrong,” Kaplan wrote in today’s brutal ruling.
“Given his conduct so far in this case, Mr. Trump’s position regarding the burdens of discovery is inexcusable,” the ruling states in regard to the Trump team’s attempts to delay the collection of evidence in the lawsuit. “As this Court previously has observed, Mr. Trump has litigated this case since it began in 2019 with the effect and probably the purpose of delaying it.”
Trump’s legal team has consistently argued that he was acting in the scope of his duties as the US president when he denied the allegations against him and verbally smeared Carroll. If it were determined that Trump was, in fact, acting as a federal employee when he made the remarks, the U.S. government would then become the defendant in the case.
POLITICO reports, “The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a split decision last month that Trump was a federal employee when he commented on Carroll’s claims. But asked another court in Washington to decide whether Trump’s public statements occurred during the scope of his employment.”
Read the full report here.
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