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A federal judge has rejected a Justice Department effort to intervene in a defamation lawsuit brought against Donald Trump, concluding that the president’s actions at issue were outside of his official duties.
Writer E. Jean Carroll wrote in a book excerpt in 2019 that Trump raped her during an encounter at a New York department store in the 1990s. After the publication of her claims, Trump claimed to the media that she made up the story. She then sued for defamation.
But the DOJ took the unusual action last month of trying to intervene in the case, on the basis that Trump’s denial of the story was part of his official duties as president. That would have raised the prospect that the case would be dismissed because of immunity extended for libel and slander cases under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
In a ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote that the president is not an employee of the government within the meaning of the FTCA, and that even if he were, his statements concerning Carroll were outside the scope of that employment.
https://deadline.com/2020/10/donald-trump-justice-department-intervene-1234603948/