Posted on 01/09/2020 7:30:41 PM PST by yesthatjallen
President Donald Trump has lost a bid to block an advice columnists lawsuit over his remarks that she lied in accusing him of rape.
In a decision this week, a Manhattan judge declined to order a hearing on Trumps request to dismiss E. Jean Carrolls defamation suit and to put evidence-gathering on hold in the meantime.
A lawyer for Trump, Lawrence Rosen, had argued the New York court shouldnt handle the case, saying that the presidents statements werent made in the state and that Trump currently lives in Washington, not New York, his longtime home.
Judge Doris Ling-Cohan said the argument wasnt properly backed up.
There is not even a tweet, much less an affadavit by defendant Trump in support, Ling-Cohan wrote in a decision provided to lawyers in the case Thursday. An affadavit is an out-of-court statement under oath.
A request for comment on the decision was sent to Rosen.
Carrolls lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said she was pleased with the ruling.
We look forward to moving ahead in this case and proving that Donald Trump lied when he told the world that he did not rape our client and had not even met her, Kaplan said in a statement.
Carroll alleges in the suit that Trump smeared her and harmed her career. Many readers of her longtime Elle magazine column stopped writing to her for advice, according to the suit. It seeks unspecified damages and a retraction of Trumps statements.
Carroll accused Trump last summer of raping her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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Journalists are sued for libel all the time.
I agree, but I think the Me Too movement has pretty much laid that to rest.
These women come out making charges, and if you so much as attempt to defend yourself against them, it seems to prove them right to some people.
There used to be a female poster to this forum that claimed women and children never lie about stuff like this.
These are mindsets a man faces going into a situation like this, many years after the fact.
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