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riversedge

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Wed Feb 19, 2020, 06:58 PM Feb 2020

Woman seeking Trump's DNA fights his effort to delay suit

Glad she has not given up.





Woman seeking Trump's DNA fights his effort to delay suit


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/woman-seeking-trumps-dna-fights-effort-delay-suit-69057422?cid=referral_taboola_feed



A lawyer for a woman who has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s says he's trying to keep the truth from coming out by attempting to delay her defamation lawsuit and her effort to get his DNA

JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press February 18, 2020, 6:30 PM


NEW YORK -- Lawyers for a woman who has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s told a court Tuesday he's trying “to stop the truth from ever coming out” by attempting to delay her defamation lawsuit and her effort to get his DNA.

Trump's attorneys have asked a court to put writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case on hold until New York's highest court rules — in a different suit — on whether the incumbent president can be sued in state courts.


Trump denies Carroll's allegation. She's suing him for saying she lied.

“Trump, for his part, has done everything he can to stop the truth from ever coming out,” Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said Tuesday in court papers.

She argued there's no justification for waiting months for a decision in the other suit, a somewhat similar defamation claim filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos.................................



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Woman seeking Trump's DNA fights his effort to delay suit (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2020 OP
If he's innocent, he should be giving it freely bitterross Feb 2020 #1
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