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Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility
The Epoch Times ^ | 04/15/2023 | Gary Bai

Posted on 04/15/2023 11:42:53 AM PDT by thegagline

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency “might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony” of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ejeancarroll; harassment; lawfare; persecution; rape; trump; wallsareclosingin
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To: ridesthemiles

Yeah, I thought the same thing. A rape is a traumatic event, and the person committing the rape is not doing it for the sex. The rapist is doing it to exert control over a woman. He almost always has major issues with women.


21 posted on 04/15/2023 5:15:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Candor7

She doesn’t even what year the non-reported attack took place. How do you forget that kind of event? Why didn’t she report it to the store, police, Mad Magazine?

Doesn’t smell right!


22 posted on 04/15/2023 7:51:29 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

She will have to obtain a ....court order to allow for evidence via hypnotic regression therapy. like they did on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

The power pf suggestion will allow her to remember everything!(sarc.)


23 posted on 04/16/2023 2:18:44 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Maris Crane

Agreed Maris.


24 posted on 04/16/2023 2:19:44 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

25 posted on 04/16/2023 5:27:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Candor7

wow just read her article of all the men she met and attacked her. Yet she has never filed a lawsuit against many of the famous men, just Trump. She never reported any of the attacks, never kept any clothing from the attacks, yet she still has her dress from Trumps attack.

She was 52 when it happened, and all the years she was attacked, fondled, raped, she was still naive enough to go into dressing room with Trump truly believing he was going to try on some lingerie for her.

Yeah, she is being paid to bring Trump down.


26 posted on 04/16/2023 9:31:58 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: thegagline

What evidence does E. Jean Carroll have to support that she was raped by Trump some 40 years ago?


27 posted on 04/17/2023 11:39:18 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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