Woman asks for Trump’s DNA after accusing him of raping her

NY – The lawyers of a journalist who accuses Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s, they asked for a DNA sample from the president to determine if there is genetic material from her in the clothes she says she was wearing during that occasion.

The columnist’s lawyers E. Jean Carroll They notified a Trump lawyer on Thursday to present a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison with unidentified male DNA present in the dress.”

Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November when he rejected his complaint. Your lawyer, Roberta KaplanHe did analyze the black wool dress. A laboratory report attached to the legal notice says that the DNA found in the sleeves was a mixture of at least four people, at least one of them male.

Several people were analyzed and eliminated as potential contributors to the mix, according to the report to which The Associated Press had access. The names were deleted.

Although the notification is a legal claim, these usually lead to confrontations in which a judge must decide whether to comply with it.

The Associated Press sent a message to Trump’s lawyer asking for statements.

In the middle of last year, Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the locker room of a luxury store in the mid-1990s.

Carroll said in an article published in June in New York magazine and in a book the following month, that he met Trump by chance, chatted with him and accompanied him to the lingerie department to help him choose a gift for an unidentified friend . He said that, between jokes, the two ended up in a dressing room where Trump put his hand under her dress, lowered her underwear and raped her while she struggled and finally escaped.

“The Donna Karan dress is still in the back of my dressing room, without using or washing since that afternoon,” he said. He dressed him for a photo that illustrated the article in the magazine.

Trump said in June that Carroll “lies completely” and that “I never met this person in my entire life.” On a 1987 photo that shows them with their spouses at the time in a society event, Trump said he was “in line at the time.”

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