Former President Donald Trump called the US legal system “a disgrace” on Wednesday after a judge ruled he would have to testify under oath in a defamation case.
Trump will be called to testify next Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit brought by a columnist who accused him of raping her in the 1990s.
The court ruling comes after E. Jean Carroll sued the former US president in 2019, alleging that Trump raped her in a New York store in 1995, then lied about it and tarnished the columnist’s reputation when he decided to go public with the history.
Trump called the Elle columnist’s lawsuit “a hoax and a lie” as well as “a total conspiracy.”
“I do not know this woman, I have no idea who she is, except that it seems that many years ago, with her husband, she managed to take a picture with me shaking hands (…) at a charity event,” said the former boss of American state.
“It’s a hoax and a lie, like all the other scams they’ve been trying to hit me with for the last seven years,” he lamented, concluding: “Now I just have to go through more years of legality.” Nonsense to clear my name. This can only happen to Trump!”
The case had been stalled over a technical legal question of whether Trump should face the lawsuit as a citizen or whether the US government should step in as a defendant, because the tycoon was serving as head of state at the time he denied. the accusations. .
Alina Habba, Trump’s attorney, wrote in a statement that she hopes to “establish on the record that the case is, and always has been, grossly unfair.”
Because the alleged rape happened a long time ago, Carroll was initially barred from prosecuting Trump for sexual assault. He ended up moving forward with a defamation lawsuit, due in large part to derogatory comments the former president made when the columnist broke the story.
In September, a Washington appeals court examined whether Donald Trump was serving as president when he denied raping his wife and said the whistleblower was someone who was not his gender. The court ultimately ruled that Trump was a federal employee when he commented on Carroll’s allegations.
Source: TSF
