Trial: Donald Trump must testify in a case that pits him in opposition to a rape accuser

Procedural battles come to an finish in a defamation case pitting Donald Trump in opposition to a former journalist who accuses him of rape within the Nineteen Nineties. A New York choose on Wednesday rejected a request by the previous US president to postpone his testimony scheduled for subsequent week, a courtroom doc says.

On this case, E. Jean Carroll, identified for having been a columnist within the journal Shehad attacked Donald Trump in civil in November 2019 in a courtroom of the State of New York. She accused him of defaming her for calling a “full lie”, in June 2019, his accusations that he raped her within the becoming room of a New York division retailer within the mid-Nineteen Nineties The Republican president, then in workplace, had claimed that he had by no means met her and that she was “not his sort of lady”.

To learn: Journalist claims she was raped by Donald Trump within the Nineteen Nineties

Trump referred to as to testify on Wednesday

The criticism has been delayed by procedural battles, together with whether or not Donald Trump needs to be represented by the US authorities within the case as president on the time. For Decide Lewis Kaplan, the query isn’t definitively settled, however it can not delay the case any longer, and the depositions of E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, scheduled respectively for Friday and subsequent Wednesday, particularly due to the “superior age” of the events, 78 for the complainant, 76 for Donald Trump.

“As this courtroom has already famous, Donald Trump has attacked this process because it started in 2019, with the impact and possibly the target of delaying it”, underlines Decide Kaplan.

The Justice of the Peace additionally notes in his determination the intention of the previous journalist to say damages from the previous American president for the alleged rape himself, when a brand new regulation of the State of New York will come into power permitting carry a civil criticism with out bearing in mind the limitation intervals. This regulation, referred to as the “Grownup Survivors Act”, will take impact on November 24.