E. Jean Carroll in the New York State Supreme Court on March, 4, 2020. (Photo by Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/TNS/Sipa USA)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers that the planned testimony be delayed. The deposition is now scheduled for Oct. 19.
The decision came in a lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll. She says Trump raped her in an upscale Manhattan department store’s dressing room. Trump has denied it.
A lawyer for Trump says she looks forward to proving the claims are entirely without merit.
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