Donald Trump's lawyer said Friday that the former president is willing to provide a DNA sample to be compared against stains on the dress of a woman who accused him of raping her over a quarter century ago in a department store dressing room.
Attorney Joseph Tacopina told a Manhattan federal court judge in a letter that Trump will turn over the sample as long as lawyers for his accuser, columnist E. Jean Carroll, provide missing pages from a DNA report on the dress first.
According to a court filing Thursday, Trump and Carroll are both listed as their lawyers' first possible witnesses at a trial scheduled to start April 24. Carroll has sued Trump for defamation and for rape, saying Trump turned a friendly encounter at a luxury Manhattan department store in late 1995 or early 1996 into a violent rape.Trump has insisted the meeting never happened, including during an October deposition, and his lawyer said the same in his latest court filing.
Tacopina claimed that Carroll and her lawyers were trying to gain a publicity advantage by claiming Trump's DNA is on the dress she wore the night she said she was raped.Tacopina said Carroll's lawyers have declined to produce a dozen pages of the DNA report they obtained because “she knows his DNA is not on the dress because the alleged sexual assault never occurred.”
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, did not immediately comment, though she was expected to file a response to Tacopina's letter to the judge.
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