The former U.S. president will be subject to a deposition in the defamation trial against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll. Former President Donald Trump must sit for a deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit over his alleged rape of columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday. And that deposition is coming up fast. The date is now set for Wednesday, Oct. 19—in just one week. The ruling, delivered by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, means Trump is now all but certain to actually have to sit down and answer questions about the incident. Carroll accused Trump in 2019 of raping her in a New York department-store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump denied the claim, and accused Carroll of inventing the accusation to help sell a book. Trump’s denial prompted Carroll to launch her lawsuit accusing Trump of defaming her with his denial.
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