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White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that they were not made aware of the Justice Department’s move to substitute itself in a case defending Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit.

UPDATE (9/8/2020, 11 p.m. ET): On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, the US Justice Department asked to take over as President Donald Trump’s defense team in a lawsuit brought on by E. Jean Carroll, who accused the former Celebrity Apprentice host of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s — this, according to CNN.

type” — comments that Carroll has contended in her lawsuit were defamatory.Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, said in a statement that the Justice Department’s attempted intervention is “shocking” and offensive to her as a lawyer and citizen.Also Read: E Jean Carroll's Defamation Suit Against Trump Will Move Forward, Judge Rules“On the very day that he would have been required to appeal, Trump instead enlisted the U.S.

T’S ON!! See you in court, @realDonaldTrump!” she wrote Friday. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle Magazine, is suing the president in state court on the grounds that when Trump denied her accusation of a sexual assault in the 1990s, he damaged her reputation.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll says she has been fired from Elle magazine after accusing President Donald Trump of raping her.Carroll claimed in June that Trump had assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.On Tuesday, the writer tweeted that she had been fired after 26 years at the magazine — where she ran the "Ask E.