Trump bid to dodge suit from rape accuser heads to DC court

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Published September 27, 2022 11:47 AM

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has asked a Washington D.C. appeals court to help it decide whether the United States should be substituted for former President Donald Trump as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says Trump raped her. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that had concluded that Trump must face the lawsuit brought in Manhattan federal court by columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll says Trump defamed her with public comments he made after she wrote in a 2019 book that Trump raped her during a chance encounter 30 years ago in an upscale Manhattan department store.

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