FIRST TIME EVER THAT DOJ DEFENDS SITTING PRESIDENT IN RAPE RELATED CASE…

TRUMP BEING SUED BY WOMAN WHO HAS ACCUSED HIM OF RAPING HER…

The Justice Department is asking to take over President Donald Trump’s defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded.

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The Justice Department has moved to intervene in a defamation lawsuit against President Trump. In 2019, columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her years ago, and later claimed his denunciations amounted to defamation. William Brangham talks to David Laufman, a former DOJ official under multiple administrations, about what he calls an “inappropriate” intervention by the attorney general.

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