Woman who accused Trump of rape plans to file sexual battery suit

that woman Alleging ex-President Donald Trump raped her A real estate developer in New York City in the 1990s, he said in a letter made public Tuesday that she planned to file a sexual assault lawsuit under the state’s new law. Adult Survivor Act.

Roberta Kaplan, attorney for journalist E. Jean Carroll, In a letter dated August 8 Carroll plans to file a lawsuit on Nov. 24, when New York’s Adult Survivors Act takes effect. Under the new law, between Nov. 24 this year and Nov. 23, 2023, plaintiffs can file civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct — regardless of when the alleged misconduct occurred.

Carroll has submitted a Defamation allegations against Trump, Kaplan proposed in the letter, the proposed Adult Survivor Act claims that the lawsuit will be heard together in February 2023. According to the letter, Kaplan wrote that Carroll plans to sue Trump for sexual abuse and “deliberately causing emotional distress.”

Trump denies raping Carroll. Carroll is suing him for defamation over remarks he made during his 2019 presidency, claiming she “completely lied” about the attack on selling the memoir and said “she’s not my type.”

Trump attorney Alina Hobar, Reply in letter dated August 11 The former president “totally and steadfastly opposes” combining the claims, writing that “the other two reasons for action — the beatings and intentional emotional distress — would be very harmful.”

“The findings in the above-mentioned defamation case are all one-way,” Kaplan wrote. Carroll “prepared to produce 30,267 pages of material in response to the defendants’ document requests,” Kaplan said, and she had provided “substantial” evidence to 19 inquiries. Sexual Reply”.

Kaplan claimed Trump “had little to no involvement in the discovery process.” Kaplan wrote that she initially thought they didn’t need Trump’s testimony, but “it now appears that testimony is the only way to do so, especially as we try to avoid further delays.”

Hobar responded that Kaplan “repeatedly mischaracterized the discovery efforts of both parties to date” in the original lawsuit. Hobar also defended the former president’s claim that “the privileges asserted by the defendants—executive privilege, deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, etc.—applied to every situation.”

“For example, the presidential privilege of communications is a well-established doctrine that has been recognized as the ‘presumptive privilege of presidential communications,’ which ‘underlies the functioning of government and is inseparable from the constitutional separation of powers,'” Hobbes wrote.

The scope of the privilege is now in Trump’s federal lawsuit in Florida.

Trump also claims executive privilege Confidential records seized at his Mar-a-Lago should be protected when The FBI executed a search warrant on August 8Executive privilege is based on the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers, which gives the president the right to have his deliberations protected under certain circumstances by aides to Congress and the judiciary.

This Supreme Court previously rejected Trump’s attempt Use executive privilege to protect the records of the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. President Joe Biden has previously said Documents requested by the committee are not subject to executive privilege.