{"id":9093,"date":"2021-01-16T02:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T02:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117995\/us-lawyers-ask-court-nix-donald-trump-e-jean"},"modified":"2021-01-16T02:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T02:58:48","slug":"us-lawyers-ask-court-to-nix-donald-trump-from-e-jean-carroll-rape-defamation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/us-lawyers-ask-court-to-nix-donald-trump-from-e-jean-carroll-rape-defamation-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawyers ask court to nix Donald Trump from E. Jean Carroll rape defamation suit"},"content":{"rendered":"Justice Department lawyers asked a federal appeal court on Friday to replace President Donald Trump with the United States as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says he raped her in the 1990s.The lawyers filed papers in an appeal of a lower court Manhattan judge\u2019s ruling denying the substitution in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, a columnist who in a June 2019 book described her encounter with Trump at an upscale Manhattan department store.The book excerpt\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117995\/us-lawyers-ask-court-nix-donald-trump-e-jean\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Department lawyers asked a federal appeal court on Friday to replace President Donald Trump with the United States as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says he raped her in the 1990s.The lawyers filed papers in an app&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}