Trump Fails to Stall Rape Accuser’s Lawsuit; Deposition Looms

E. Jean Carroll in 2019.Photographer: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump can’t stall a defamation lawsuit filed by a New York advice columnist who claims he raped her two decades ago, a judge ruled, allowing the two sides to start digging for evidence.

E. Jean Carroll, who went public with her claims last year and sued Trump after he called her a liar, will now seek to depose the president as well as get a DNA test from him to compare with a sample on a dress the author said she wore at the time of the alleged attack.