As his sexual misconduct cases move forward, Trump could face court soon

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Former President Donald Trump could soon face court as his sexual misconduct cases could now move forward since he’s no longer in office.
• Over two dozen women have publicly claimed that Trump committed sexual assault against them years before his presidency.
• Trump denied all the allegations, treating them as political blackmailing.

Writer E. Jean Carroll could soon face former President Donald Trump in court now that he’s no longer in office. In fact, she already went on shopping to get the best dress in time for their personal encounter.

The 77-year-old former Elle magazine columnist has sought defamation charges against Trump in November 2019 following his denial of raping her at a Manhattan department store in the early 90s. Trump claimed that Carroll was a liar and he did not know her, while also saying that she was not his type.

Carroll was longingly waiting for the day to personally see Trump on trial, and witness his deposition.

“I am living for the moment to walk into that room to sit across the table from him. I think of it everyday,” Carroll told Reuters in an interview.

A former federal prosecutor and now clinical law adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, Jennifer Rodgers said that “the only barrier to proceeding with the civil suits was that he’s the president.”

In a statement, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan also noted: “I think there will be a sense among the judges that it’s time to get a move on in these cases.”

Carroll’s attorneys were also pursuing to get a DNA sample from Trump to establish that they really had an encounter which Trump strongly denied. 

A representative and an attorney from the former president have not responded to requests for comment.

Aside from Carroll, Trump also faces another defamation lawsuit. In 2016, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s reality TV show ‘The Apprentice,’ accused the ex-president of sexual assault. Zervos claimed that Trump forcefully kissed her during a meeting in New York in 2007 and touched her in another event during a job discussion at a California hotel.

Trump, as usual, rebuked the accusations as he also called Zervos a liar. She filed a defamation lawsuit in 2017, seeking damages and reversal of Trump’s statement.

Despite arguing that the case should be junked given his judicial immunity as a federal official, the former president failed as the New York Court of Appeals was still looking forward to handling it. Early this month, Zervos filed a motion to request for the case to continue since Trump was no longer in office.

Caroll and Zervos were part of over two dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct that happened in years prior to his White House tenure.

Revoking all the allegations, Trump said that they were part of political propaganda against him.

Source: Yahoo News