NY prosecutors can get Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll rape-defamation case, judge rules

The deposition that Donald Trump gave lawyers for writer E. Jean Carroll's suit accusing him of raping and defaming her tin beryllium sent to the Manhattan District Attorney's bureau by her lawyers, a national judge ruled.

The order raises the accidental that Trump's sworn grounds successful Carroll's lawsuit could beryllium utilized against the erstwhile president arsenic portion of the DA's pending transgression prosecution.

DA Alvin Bragg Jr. charged Trump, 77, earlier this twelvemonth with falsifying concern records related to a 2016 hush wealth outgo to porn prima Stormy Daniels. That case, successful which Trump has pleaded not guilty, is acceptable to spell to proceedings adjacent May.

Bragg's bureau this May issued a subpoena for the videotape and transcript of the deposition Trump gave successful Carroll's civilian lawsuit past fall.

Trump's lawyers past asked a New York authorities tribunal justice to artifact the subpoena.

The justice past period ruled that the national justice successful Manhattan who is overseeing Carroll's lawsuit should determine whether a protective bid covering the deposition precluded it from being fixed to the DA's bureau by her lawyers.

That national judge, Lewis Kaplan, successful his order, said Carroll's lawyers could comply with the subpoena.

Although Trump's lawyers had argued successful the authorities tribunal enactment that the deposition was covered by the protective order, they did not renew that statement to Kaplan.

Carroll's lawyers declined to remark Monday.

Trump's lawyer and a spokeswoman for Bragg's bureau did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

The deposition Trump gave features an speech helium had with Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who asked him astir the infamous "Access Hollywood" remark made years earlier. In those comments, Trump bragged astir sexually groping women without asking for their consent and getting distant with it due to the fact that of helium was a "star."

"Well, historically, that's existent with stars," Trump answered.

Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to Judge Kaplan, past asked him if was "true with stars that they tin drawback women" by their genitals.

"Well, that's what — if you look implicit the past cardinal years, I conjecture that's been mostly true. Not always, but mostly true. Unfortunately, oregon fortunately," Trump replied.

Carroll's lawyer past asked him if helium considered himself to beryllium a "star."

"I deliberation you tin accidental that, yeah," helium answered.

Carroll, 79, sued Trump successful 2019, claiming the then-president defamed her successful comments helium made earlier that twelvemonth denying allegations she archetypal made successful a New York mag nonfiction that helium raped her successful the dressing country of a Manhattan section store aft a accidental brushwood successful the mid-1990s.

Trial successful that suit, which involves lone a defamation claim, is scheduled to statesman successful January.

Carroll separately sued Trump successful precocious 2022 successful Manhattan national court. That enactment made the civilian assertion of rape — based connected her relationship of the alleged onslaught successful the 1990s — on with defamation, which stemmed from disparaging comments Trump made astir her successful 2022.

Carroll's allegation of rape was allowed nether a caller authorities instrumentality that opened a one-year model permitting accusers successful intersexual maltreatment cases to record civilian claims that different would beryllium barred by the statute of limitations.

That 2nd lawsuit went to proceedings this spring.

In May, a assemblage recovered Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her. The assemblage ordered Trump to wage Carroll $5 cardinal successful compensatory and punitive damages.

Trump is appealing that verdict.

In July, Judge Kaplan rejected a petition by Trump to sharply trim the assemblage grant against him.

"The assemblage successful this lawsuit did not scope 'a earnestly erroneous result,'" Kaplan wrote successful an bid that quoted Trump's arguments.

"Its verdict is not 'a miscarriage of justice,' " the justice wrote.

Earlier successful July, the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a astir three-year effort to shield Trump from civilian liability from Carroll's archetypal lawsuit, which relates to comments helium made astir her portion president.