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Areeba Shah

Trump rages over judge's rebuke

Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the podium for a campaign rally at Legacy Sports USA on October 09, 2022 in Mesa, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump had a meltdown on Truth Social after a judge on Wednesday ordered him to answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who alleged that he raped her in the mid-1990s.

Trump's outburst on his struggling social media startup came hours after U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected a request by Trump's lawyers to delay the scheduled testimony. The deposition is set for Oct. 19.

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