Writer E Jean Carroll says Trump is stonewalling over defamation case

Lawyer rejects ex-president's argument that suit, centered on Trump's denial that he raped her, should be dismissed

The writer suing Donald Trump for defamation after he denied having raped her in the mid-1990s accused him of stonewalling and trying to avoid a scheduled deposition as he tries to delay the case indefinitely.

In a letter filed on Friday in federal court in Manhattan, a lawyer for E Jean Carroll also said Trump was mistaken" in arguing that the lawsuit should be dismissed altogether because the US government, and not he, was the proper defendant.