Justice Department lawyers said that because Trump was acting as president when he denied the allegations, a judge should “substitute the United States for President Trump as defendant.”ADADIn a statement, Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, blasted the department’s filing. Trump has publicly expressed dismay about criminal cases against his allies, and, in those involving friend Roger Stone and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, he has seen the Justice Department intervene in unusual ways. The Justice Department has previously intervened in lawsuits in which Trump has personally sued those who are investigating him and seeking to get information on his private finances. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. A federal judge will first have to consider whether to grant the request to make the U.S. government the defendant in the case.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 00:33 UTC