Court rejects Trump's request in former journalist's sexual abuse lawsuit

Ms. E. Jean Carroll and Mr. Donald Trump

Reuters reported on June 30 that a federal judge has dismissed former US President Donald Trump's request to object to a lawsuit filed by former journalist E. Jean Carroll accusing him of defamation for denying that he raped her in the 1990s.

Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan (New York) said that Mr. Trump's argument that he deserves absolute presidential immunity is baseless.

The judge also rejected Mr Trump's claim that Ms Carroll "acquiesced" to his statements, having deliberately waited decades until he entered the White House to make them public.

Mr Trump's lawyer Alina Habba said his client disagreed with the court's decision and would maintain all possible defenses.

Earlier on May 9, a jury ruled that Mr. Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing and then defaming Ms. Carroll.

Accordingly, Ms. Carroll (79 years old) was unable to fully prove that Mr. Trump raped her nearly 30 years ago in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, as she has long claimed.

However, the jury found that Mr Trump had sexually abused Ms Carroll, a lesser crime.

The jury also found that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carroll in October 2022 when he posted a statement on the social media platform Truth Social calling the lawsuit she initiated a "100% scam" and a "myth, a lie."

Mr Trump, who has launched a presidential re-election campaign to return to the White House after 2024. After the trial on May 9, the former president called the verdict a "disgrace" and declared that he "has absolutely no idea who this woman is".

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