President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice submitted a brief in a federal appeals court this week seeking to defend former President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit, eight months after then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused Trump of using the DOJ as his own private “law firm” in the same case.
The case stems from comments Trump allegedly made about writer and New York City socialite E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room sometime in the mid-1990s in an essay for New York magazine. Trump forcefully denied Carroll’s allegations, telling reporters after Carroll’s story surfaced that he had never met the “Elle” columnist, that Carroll was “totally lying” in order to make a forthcoming book on her time in New York City more desirable to readers, and that “she’s not my type.”
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