Lawyers For E. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape, Seeking His DNA to Test Against Her Dress

E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused President Donald Trump of rape, is seeking, as part of a defamation lawsuit, his DNA to determine whether it matches samples found on her dress.

Carroll alleged in a book that Trump raped her in the 1990’s, and that she kept the dress she wore during the assault. She is suing Trump for defamation after the president denied her allegation.

According to an Associated Press report, lawyers representing Carroll served papers to Trump’s attorneys that call upon the president to submit his DNA for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Per AP:

“Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character,” Carroll said in a statement Thursday.

Her lawyer, Kaplan, said it was “standard operating procedure” in a sexual assault investigation to request a DNA sample from the accused.

“As a result, we’ve requested a simple saliva sample from Mr. Trump to test his DNA, and there really is no valid basis for him to object,” she said.

Trump’s lawyer has tried to get the case thrown out. A Manhattan judge declined to do so earlier this month, saying the attorney hadn’t properly backed up his arguments that the case didn’t belong in a New York court.

This past year, Ms. Carroll accused Trump of an encounter in a department store dressing room where he raped her. In November, Carroll sued Trump on the grounds of defamation after Trump denied her rape allegations. In response to the allegations, Trump has stated that Carrol is trying to sell a book with “false stories” and has billed Carrol as “not my type.”

Read the exclusive report from AP here.

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