NEW YORK — A federal judge gave former President Donald Trump more time to argue against the partial release of his deposition in a lawsuit by a woman who claims he raped her in the 1990s.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday initially ordered the unsealing of 34 pages of Trump’s testimony in a defamation suit by New York writer E. Jean Carroll. Hours later, Kaplan granted a request by Trump to delay the release for three days while his lawyers file a formal objection.
Carroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he publicly denied her claim that he raped her. She had filed excerpts of both her deposition and Trump’s in support of arguments to expedite evidence gathering in the case.