Judge rules out use of Access Hollywood tapes in Trump defamation trial

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On the tape, a recording from 2005 that was widely scrutinized during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump boasted, When youe a star, they let you do it. You can do anything, added: Get them through the vagina. You can do anything.

Although the Carrolls’ 2019 case only alleges defamation, not sexual assault itself, Judge Kaplan found that to prevail on her libel claim, Ms. Carroll that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted her.

Without proving the underlying claim of sexual assault, the judge wrote, he could not establish that Mr. Trumps that his story is a lie and a hoax is not true.

In November, Carroll also filed a second lawsuit in New York alleging defamation and battery under the new state law. The 2019 case is scheduled to go to trial in April. A judge has not ruled on whether the two cases will be consolidated.

Trump has denied defaming or attacking Carroll. We remain very confident that our client will be vindicated in the upcoming trial, a lawyer for Trump, Alina Habba, said in a statement on Friday.

The judges who ruled Friday will also allow Carroll to use the testimony of Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, two women who alleged Trump assaulted them in the years before he ran for office. Leeds said Trump groped her while they were flying together on a plane. Stoynoff said he sexually assaulted her while she was reporting a story for People Magazine.

Trump has denied both their accounts.

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