Trump is sued again by writer for defamation, and battery, over alleged rape - Reuters

NEW YORK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump was sued for defamation a 2nd clip connected Thursday by a writer who accused the erstwhile U.S. president of lying by denying that helium raped her 27 years ago.

In a ailment filed successful Manhattan national court, the erstwhile Elle mag columnist E. Jean Carroll besides accused Trump of artillery successful an alleged brushwood astatine the Bergdorf Goodman section store successful Manhattan.

Carroll, 78, brought the artillery assertion nether New York's Adult Survivors Act, a caller instrumentality giving intersexual battle victims a one-year model to writer their alleged abusers, adjacent if the maltreatment occurred agelong agone and statutes of limitations person expired.

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, was the archetypal time that accusers could sue.

Trump, 76, has denied raping Carroll oregon knowing her astatine the time, and said she was "not my type."

His archetypal denial successful June 2019 prompted her to writer for defamation 5 months later.

He repeated the denial successful an Oct. 12 station connected his Truth Social account, calling Carroll's assertion a "hoax" and "lie," prompting the caller defamation claim.

Both sides are awaiting appeals tribunal decisions addressing Trump's statement that helium was legally immune from Carroll's archetypal suit due to the fact that helium had spoken successful his capableness arsenic president.

If courts agreed that the U.S. government, which has sovereign immunity from defamation claims, could beryllium substituted for Trump arsenic a defendant, Carroll's archetypal suit would fail.

That would apt not impact her 2nd suit due to the fact that Trump is simply a backstage citizen, having near the White House successful January 2021.

Carroll is seeking unspecified damages. To enactment her artillery claim, she said Trump caused her lasting intelligence harm, and near her incapable to prolong a romanticist relationship.

The archetypal suit is scheduled for proceedings connected Feb. 6, 2023, earlier U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan successful Manhattan, but volition apt beryllium delayed due to the fact that of the appeals process.

At a proceeding connected Tuesday, Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan asked for an April 10 proceedings covering some lawsuits, saying they person important overlap.

Trump's lawyer Alina Habba sought a May 8 proceedings for lone the archetypal lawsuit. She besides told the justice a longer hold made consciousness due to the fact that Trump had not hired a lawyer for the 2nd lawsuit.

"Your lawsuit successful the contiguous action, Ms. Habba, has known this was coming for months, and helium would beryllium well-advised to determine who is representing him successful it," the justice responded.

Judge Kaplan said helium whitethorn determine aboriginal adjacent week however to docket some lawsuits.

Reporting by Jonathan Stempel successful New York; Editing by Howard Goller and Nick Zieminski

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