A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected the possibility that a DNA sample from former President Donald Trump be submitted during the trial to be held for the lawsuit in the rape case of journalist Elizabeth Jean Carroll during the 1990s.
District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has assured that it is «too late» to include the DNA test of the former U.S. president, since the trial is scheduled for next April, as reported by NBC News.
The case was revived last week after months of denials by Trump’s legal team. Joe Tacopina, his new lawyer, sent a letter to the judge offering to send a DNA sample in exchange for more information contained in a report on the alleged genetic material found on the journalist’s dress.
«If Trump’s lawyers wanted information that was not included in that report, they should have asked for it much earlier,» the judge ruled, adding that Carroll’s lawyers have had «many opportunities» to demand such DNA samples from the former president.
He also questioned the validity of the evidence due to the fact that «sufficient quality of the DNA» could not be assured because it had allegedly remained in the aforementioned dress «since the mid-1990s».
Elisabeth Jean Carroll filed a lawsuit in 2019 in a state court against the former US president for defamation due to the way in which the New York tycoon denied a first rape allegation, which he said that «she was not his type» and that «he was doing it to sell».
The journalist wrote in her book ‘What do we need men for?’ that Trump sexually assaulted her in the fitting rooms of a Manhattan store in the mid-1990s. According to her, she met Trump on New York’s Fifth Avenue and they went to a lingerie store to buy a gift for a woman, where the former president allegedly pushed her into a fitting room and raped her.
Carroll made this story known for the first time in this book, published in June in the digital edition of ‘The New Yorker’. She then filed the complaint. Carroll explained at the time that she had taken this step encouraged by the #MeToo movement.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
