Trump willing to give DNA sample in sexual assault lawsuit, lawyer says
Cami Mondeaux
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Former President Donald Trump is willing to provide a DNA sample to New York prosecutors as part of a lawsuit filed by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in the 1990s.
Trump agreed to provide the sample in exchange for a copy of a laboratory report that contains genetic material from the clothes Carroll was wearing on the day of the alleged assault, his lawyer Joseph Tacopina said in court filings. As part of the agreement, the sample may only be used for the “sole purpose of comparing it to the DNA found on the dress at issue,” he wrote.
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Caroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan rejected the deal, arguing it would be used as a “bad-faith effort” to “delay these proceedings,” according to court filings. Tacopina pushed back on those assertions, arguing the sample would not be used to postpone a trial date.
Kaplan also accused Trump of leaking information to a handful of conservative outlets to “taint the potential jury pool” ahead of the criminal trial, which is slated to begin in April.
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The negotiations mark the latest in a yearslong lawsuit brought by Carroll, who sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied claims he had raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. Carroll filed the suit after Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, describing her as “not my type.”
Carroll previously requested DNA samples from the former president as part of her defamation case, citing a laboratory report that contained genetic materials from the dress the magazine columnist said she was wearing on the day of the assault. However, Trump’s lawyers argued in court that at least 13 pages are missing from the report — requesting those pages be provided to Trump’s legal team before his DNA is handed over.