Ms. Carroll’s lawyers have also requested that Mr. Trump provide a DNA sample to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress that Ms. Carroll said she was wearing at the time of the encounter. The government filing was yet another attempt by Mr. Trump to stall the defamation case, Ms. Kaplan said, noting he has used the tactic several times in Ms. Carroll’s suit and other legal matters. “Trump’s strategy in this case from day one has been delay, delay, and more delay,” Ms. Kaplan said, adding, “Our job is to make sure that doesn’t happen.”Ms. Carroll, a writer, sued Mr. Trump last November, claiming that he lied by publicly denying he had ever met her. In a memoir published last summer, she maintained that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Midtown Manhattan. In her suit, she accused the president of defaming her by publicly stating that he could not have raped because she “wasn’t his type.”

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 23:11 UTC