Woman who says Trump raped her seeks DNA
NEW YORK – Lawyers for a woman who accused President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s asked for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she said she wore during the encounter.
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”
Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, had the black wool coat-style dress tested.
A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male.
Such legal demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced.
The AP was unable to reach Trump’s attorney for comment.
Carroll accused Trump last summer of raping her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Trump said in June that Carroll was “totally lying” and that he “never met this person in my life.”
Trump dismissed a photo of them and their spouses at a social event in 1987 as a moment when he was “standing with my coat on in a line.”
Carroll sued Trump in November, saying he smeared her and hurt her career as a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist by calling her a liar. She seeks unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump’s statements.