Judge rejects Trump’s bid to dismiss E Jean Carroll’s first defamation suit
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Ex-president's claims of absolute immunity and that statements were opinion were rejected; lawsuit scheduled for early next year
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to dismiss the first of E Jean Carroll's two lawsuits accusing the former US president of defamation for denying he raped her in the mid-1990s.
US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan found no merit in Trump's arguments that he deserved absolute presidential immunity and that many of his statements about Carroll were opinion and thus protected.
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