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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Trump bid to dodge suit from rape accuser heads to DC court

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

An appeals court in Washington D.C. has been asked to help decide whether Donald Trump was doing his job as president when he denied raping a woman and dismissed his accuser as “not my type.”

The columnist, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in 2019, claiming the Republican raped her in the mid-1990s inside a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, then lied about it and besmirched her character when she decided to tell her story publicly.

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