Trump rape case: Lawyer blasts the former president's offer to finally submit DNA as a 'bad faith' delay tactic

 

Trump rape case: Lawyer blasts the former president's offer to finally submit DNA as a 'bad faith' delay tactic

  • Trump is now willing to submit a DNA sample for his civil rape case in NY, new court papers say.
  • The deadline for new evidence has passed, so it's unclear if the sample will come into play at trial.
  • Carroll's attorney called the offer "yet another bad faith and legally frivolous delay tactic." 
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    Thanks for signing up!Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the appFormer President Donald Trump has agreed to undergo DNA testing as part of his defense in an upcoming civil rape trial in New York federal court, but lawyers for his accuser say the offer is coming too late and is just another delay tactic. 

    Trump's sudden willingness to submit a DNA sample after discovery in the case has ended — and after three years of denying the request — was confirmed in court papers Friday. It was first reported by the Daily Beast."Mr. Trump is indeed willing to provide a DNA sample for the sole purpose of comparing it to the DNA found on the dress at issue," Trump attorney Joe Tacopina says in the filing.  But the former president is also demanding that his accuser first turn over the genome it would be compared to.Mr. Trump's DNA is either on the dress or it is not," and his accuser should be willing to come forward with her own evidence, the filing argues.

    "'Why is Plaintiff now hiding from this reality?" the filing asks. "We surmise that the answer to that question is that she knows his DNA is not on the dress because the alleged sexual assault never occurred."Lawyers for Trump's accuser, E. Jean Carroll, vehemently opposed the last-minute offer for a DNA swab in their response to Tacopina's letter on Friday. Carroll's lawyers first requested Trump's DNA in January 2020 to compare against skin particles found on the dress she said she was wearing during the alleged assault. But Trump resisted for years. Her lawyers now say he shouldn't be allowed to suddenly change his mind ahead of trial. "Trump may prefer to put off trial for another day, and he (and his new lawyers,) may regret decisions that he made earlier in this case, but that is no basis to again delay Carroll's day in court," one of Carroll's attorneys, Roberta Kaplan, wrote on

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