Judge rejects Trump's bid to dismiss E Jean Carroll's first defamation suit

Ex-president's claims of absolute immunity and that statements were opinion were rejected; lawsuit scheduled for early next year A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to dismiss the first of E Jean Carroll's two lawsuits accusing the former US president of defamation for denying he raped her in the mid-1990s. US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan found no merit in Trump's arguments that he deserved absolute presidential immunity and that many of his statements about Carro...