MAR4: ATTYS due in court to block DNA request for WOMAN Trump PENETRATED w. his PENIS

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Remember this case is STILL wending its way through the courts. There was a hearing on MARCH 4. Trump's attorney have been fighting him having to provide a DNA sample. Boy, didn't the CORONAVIRUS COME JUST IN TIME for this one?

Remember, E. Jean Carroll was the woman TRUMP raped in the dressing room of BERGDORF GOODMAN, a fancy dept. store directly across from Trump Tower. She still has the BLACK DRESS as evidence to compare the DNA sample, assuming she gets it. BILL CLINTON HAD TO PROVIDE ONE, WHY NOT TRUMP?

VIDEO of 2 women who corroborated HER story included in video.

Trump lawyers ask for halt in suit from woman alleging rape

President Donald Trump's lawyers are urging a judge to halt a lawsuit from a woman seeking Trump's DNA to help prove her claim that he raped her in the 1990s


By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
March 4, 2020, 1:24 PM
3 min read



2 friends of Trump accuser corroborate her storyCarol Martin and Lisa Birnbach, friends and colleagues of E. Jean Carroll, recounted what they said were their interactions soon after the alleged sexual assault.

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump's lawyers urged a judge Wednesday to halt a lawsuit from a woman seeking Trump's DNA to help prove her claim that he raped her in the 1990s, though her lawyer offered to hold off the DNA request for a time.

Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is suing Trump for calling her a liar when she went public with her rape allegation last year. Trump's lawyers argue her case — including the DNA request — needs to wait until New York's highest court rules in a separate case against him. That ruling could take several months or longer.

Judge Verna Saunders gave no indication Wednesday how or when she might rule on whether to pause Carroll's case.

Carroll, who watched from the courtroom audience, said afterward she's pursuing the suit “not just for myself but for every woman in America who's been grabbed, groped, harassed, sexually assaulted, and has spoken out and still has been disgraced, shamed or fired.”

Carroll says Trump assaulted her in a luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, after they bumped into each other and bantered about trying on a bodysuit.
Trump said Carroll was “totally lying” to sell a memoir that was published last year, adding in one interview that “she's not my type.”

He said he'd never met Carroll, shrugging off a 1987 photo of them and their then-spouses at a social event as simply a snapshot of a moment when he was standing in a line.
Carroll is seeking a DNA sample from Trump to see whether it matches as-yet-unidentified male genetic material found on a dress that she says she was wearing during the alleged attack. Carroll says she hasn't laundered the dress and donned it only once since, for a photo shoot last year.

Trump’s lawyers have asked a court to put her case on hold until New York's highest court rules — in another woman's defamation case against him — whether an incumbent president can be sued in state courts over alleged conduct outside his official duties.

“Courts are required to give the president deference” because of his national responsibilities, said one of his lawyers, Christine Montenegro.

Carroll lawyer Roberta Kaplan offered Wednesday to postpone the DNA request and sworn pretrial questioning of Trump until after the state high court rules in the other case. But she asked the court to let other evidence-gathering continue.

Trump's lawyers rebuffed the proposal.

Carroll is seeking damages and a retraction of Trump's statements, which she says harmed her reputation and career. Elle magazine ended her contract in December, after 26 years. She said she was fired over her tangle with Trump; the magazine’s publisher told The New York Times the decision wasn’t about politics.

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done....

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...-rape-69391310

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Trump Lawyers Push for Delay of Rape Accuser’s Suit

March 4, 2020
AMANDA OTTAWAY - Courthouse NEWS


MANHATTAN (CN) — Author and columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared in court Wednesday as lawyers for President Donald Trump tried to delay her suit that casts Trump’s rape denials as defamatory.

Carroll, 75, sued Trump four months ago after he responded, “fake news,” to her account of being raped by the real estate mogul about some 25 years earlier inside a dressing room at the department store Bergdorf Goodman.



E. Jean Carroll, an author and former Elle columnist who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s, appeared Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Manhattan Supreme Court for arguments in her defamation case. Carroll penned the long-running column “Ask E. Jean,” has in turn opted not to renew her contract, a consequence Carroll says is related to Trump’s defamation of her.

Trump meanwhile says the case can wait — an argument his attorney Christine Montenegro related this afternoon in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“Courts are required to give the president deference,” Montenegro told Judge Verna Saunders. “If the court does not stay this action, the president will suffer irreparable harm.”
She said the Constitution mandates a stay, and touted Trump’s successful delay of the Summer Zervos case, which also entails sexual assault claims.
“What the court has to look to is the burden on the president in carrying out the duties of his office,” said Montenegro.
Roberta Kaplan, an attorney for Carroll, scoffed at the assertion.
“Here we have a president who is not only defending cases … he’s actually brought cases as a plaintiff,” Kaplan said.
In just the last week, the Trump campaign brought two libel lawsuits against The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Kaplan, who is with the firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink, said the president’s “recent history of personal conduct litigation … confirms that [this case] poses no burden whatsoever.”

As for the Zervos case, Kaplan noted that the delay is anything but certain as New York’s highest court is slated to hold arguments this fall.
“The only possible explanation … is that Donald Trump doesn’t want this case to go forward,” she said.

Montenegro, on the other hand, denied that Carroll can make a claim for irreparable harm. Quoting reports that the ex-Elle columnist has received four other job offers, Montenegro also emphasized the issue of money damages.

Carroll says her encounter with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman went from playful to sinister when he ripped down her tights in the dressing room, pinned her arms, unzipped his pants and forced his penis inside her.

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump...accusers-suit/

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Trump Lawyers Push for Delay of Rape Accuser’s Suit

March 4, 2020
AMANDA OTTAWAY - Courthouse NEWS


MANHATTAN (CN) — Author and columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared in court Wednesday as lawyers for President Donald Trump tried to delay her suit that casts Trump’s rape denials as defamatory.

Carroll, 75, sued Trump four months ago after he responded, “fake news,” to her account of being raped by the real estate mogul about some 25 years earlier inside a dressing room at the department store Bergdorf Goodman.



E. Jean Carroll, an author and former Elle columnist who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s, appeared Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Manhattan Supreme Court for arguments in her defamation case. Carroll penned the long-running column “Ask E. Jean,” has in turn opted not to renew her contract, a consequence Carroll says is related to Trump’s defamation of her.

Trump meanwhile says the case can wait — an argument his attorney Christine Montenegro related this afternoon in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“Courts are required to give the president deference,” Montenegro told Judge Verna Saunders. “If the court does not stay this action, the president will suffer irreparable harm.”
She said the Constitution mandates a stay, and touted Trump’s successful delay of the Summer Zervos case, which also entails sexual assault claims.
“What the court has to look to is the burden on the president in carrying out the duties of his office,” said Montenegro.
Roberta Kaplan, an attorney for Carroll, scoffed at the assertion.
“Here we have a president who is not only defending cases … he’s actually brought cases as a plaintiff,” Kaplan said.
In just the last week, the Trump campaign brought two libel lawsuits against The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Kaplan, who is with the firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink, said the president’s “recent history of personal conduct litigation … confirms that [this case] poses no burden whatsoever.”

As for the Zervos case, Kaplan noted that the delay is anything but certain as New York’s highest court is slated to hold arguments this fall.
“The only possible explanation … is that Donald Trump doesn’t want this case to go forward,” she said.

Montenegro, on the other hand, denied that Carroll can make a claim for irreparable harm. Quoting reports that the ex-Elle columnist has received four other job offers, Montenegro also emphasized the issue of money damages.

Carroll says her encounter with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman went from playful to sinister when he ripped down her tights in the dressing room, pinned her arms, unzipped his pants and forced his penis inside her.

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump...accusers-suit/

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