Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said the change removes a possible impediment to a scheduled trial in 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In a letter to Trump’s and Ms Carroll’s lawyers, the US Department of Justice said it no longer believed Trump acted within the scope of his office and employment as president in June 2019, when heThe department late in Trump’s presidency had reached an opposite conclusion, which the Biden administration adopted to the surprise of some observers.
“Evidence of Mr Trump’s state of mind, some of which has come to light only after the department last made a certification decision, does not establish that he made the statements at issue with a ‘more than insignificant’ purpose to serve the United States government,” the department said.Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said the change removes a possible impediment to the scheduled Jan 15, 2024 trial in Manhattan federal court.
She sued a second time after a similar October 2022 denial, leading on May 9 to a US$5 million jury verdict against Trump for defaming and sexually abusing - but not raping - Ms Carroll. Trump is appealing that verdict. Her lawyers called the countersuit Trump’s latest effort to “spin” his trial loss by claiming she caused “significant harm” to his reputation and an “inordinate amount of damages” by implying after the verdict that the assault was also a rape.
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