Judge rules woman who accused Trump of rape can proceed with defamation suit
By J. Edward Moreno - 08/07/20 07:52 AM EDT
A New York State Supreme Court justice on Thursday denied a motion by President Trump asserting absolute immunity in a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling allows the case to go forward without waiting for a decision from an appeals court on a separate similar suit.
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist, claimed in her 2019 book “What Do We Need Men For?†that Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s.
Carroll filed the defamation lawsuit in November after the president denied the allegations, saying he’s never met her, despite there being photos of them together.
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