A US court ruled that President Donald Trump will remain the defendant in a defamation case stemming from a 1990s rape allegation.
The federal judge rejected an argument from the Justice Department that sought to have the federal government step in to replace the president as the defendant in the case.
Mr Trump is not immune from being tried as a private citizen, ruled Judge Lewis A Kaplan of the federal district court in Manhattan.
The case revolved around the federal tort claims act, a law that protects federal employees from being sued for work done during their tenure in the White House.
Judge Kaplan ruled that the law did not apply to Mr Trump as he was not an “employee of the government,” and added that even if the law applied, “President Trump’s allegedly defamatory statements concerning Ms Carroll would not have been within the scope of his employment.”
The case was brought forward by columnist E Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
The judge’s ruling means her defamation lawsuit will proceed. She claims the president harmed her reputation when he denied the attack last year and called her a liar.
Lawyers for Ms Carroll argued that “only in a world gone mad could it somehow be presidential, not personal, for Trump to slander a woman who he sexually assaulted”.
Ms Carroll went public with the rape allegation last year, detailing in her memoir that a chance encounter with Mr Trump in the mid-nineties led to him pushing her against a wall and raping her in a department store dressing room.
Mr Trump has denied the allegation and accused the former Elle columnist of lying to sell her memoir.
She’s “not my type”, he said.
Mr Trump claimed to have never met Ms Carroll, but a 1987 photo shows them at a social event with their then-spouses. He said the photo was taken while he was in a queue.
The attempt by the Justice Department to intervene in the case was viewed by critics as an attempt from Attorney General Bill Barr to protect the president.
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Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
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