


He called the lawsuit “a complete con job." Kaplan is presiding over the case in which Carroll said Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s. Kaplan in Manhattan rejected a request by his lawyers to delay a deposition scheduled for Oct. The outburst late in the day came hours after U.S. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, “a hoax and a lie." President Donald Trump angrily lashed out Wednesday, calling the nation's legal system a “broken disgrace" after a judge ruled he must answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit lodged by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s.
