New York (AP) -- Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then had the black wool coat-style dress tested. A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male.

Several other people were tested and eliminated as possible contributors to the mix, according to the lab report, which was obtained by The Associated Press. Their names are redacted.

While the notice is a demand, such demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced.

The Associated Press sent a message to Trump's attorney seeking comment.

Carroll accused Trump last summer of raping her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In a New York magazine piece in June and a book published the next month, Carroll said she and Trump met by chance, chatted and went to the lingerie department for Trump to pick out a gift for an unidentified woman. She said joking banter about trying on a bodysuit ended in a dressing room, where she said Trump reached under her black wool dress, pulled down her tights and raped her as she tried to fight him off, eventually escaping.

“The Donna Karan coatdress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening,” she wrote. She donned it for a photo accompanying the magazine piece.

Trump said in June that Carroll was “totally lying” and he had “never met this person in my life.” While a 1987 photo shows them and their then-spouses at a social event, Trump dismissed it as a moment when he was “standing with my coat on in a line.”

“She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation,” he said in one of various statements on the matter, adding that the book “should be sold in the fiction section.”

Carroll sued Trump in November, saying he smeared her and hurt her career as a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist by calling her a liar. She is seeking unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump’s statements.

“Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character," Carroll said in a statement Thursday.

Her lawyer, Kaplan, said it was “standard operating procedure” in a sexual assault investigation to request a DNA sample from the accused.

“As a result, we’ve requested a simple saliva sample from Mr. Trump to test his DNA, and there really is no valid basis for him to object,” she said.

Trump’s lawyer has tried to get the case thrown out. A Manhattan judge declined to do so earlier this month, saying the attorney hadn’t properly backed up his arguments that the case didn’t belong in a New York court.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they come forward publicly.

Carroll said she didn’t do so for decades because she feared legal retribution from Trump and damage to her reputation, among other reasons. But when the #MeToo movement spurred reader requests for advice about sexual assault, she said, she decided she had to disclose her own account.

Trump, a Republican, isn’t the first president to face the prospect of a DNA test related to a woman’s dress.

Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, underwent such a test during an independent counsel investigation into whether he had a sexual relationship with onetime White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then lied in denying it under oath.

After Clinton’s DNA was found on the dress, he acknowledged an "inappropriate intimate relationship" with Lewinsky.

Clinton was impeached by the House in December 1998 and later acquitted by the Senate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/ap-exclusive-woman-who-says-trump-raped-her-seeks-his-dna

She tweeted

What a wicked world. Can you imagine the wickedness in the heart of this woman.


This isn't seeking justice but trying to tarnish one's person and pull them out of the spotlight. 1990.


The world has experienced over 100 billion fvcks between now and then. What an audacious witxh


I'm sure she can't also be sure they both ever had an affair. Jezebel



Whether the world powers like it or not we're not returning to the Barack Obama cowardly styeld leadership, not even through his proxies Hilary Clinton or Michelle. Trump isn't going anywhere anytime soon

healthserve:
What a wicked world. Can you imagine the wickedness in the heart of this woman. This isn't seeking justice but try to tarnish one's person and pull them out of the spotlight. 1990. The world has experienced over 100 billion fvcks between now and then. What an audacious witxh

Justice delayed should not be Justice denied. She says she was raped and provided evidence despite Trump denying as he always does when things go south for him. Now all he has to do is provide his DNA and prove he did not rape her and thus get more love from the American people. How would proving you are innocent tarnish your image?

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Blindersoff:


Justice delayed should not be Justice denied. She says she was raped and provided evidence despite Trump denying as he always does when things go south for him. Now all he has to do is provide his DNA and prove he did not rape her and thus get more love from the American people. How would proving you are innocent tarnish your image?

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Human right phyter!

Blindersoff:


Justice delayed should not be Justice denied. She says she was raped and provided evidence despite Trump denying as he always does when things go south for him. Now all he has to do is provide his DNA and prove he did not rape her and thus get more love from the American people. How would proving you are innocent tarnish your image?

This isn't justice. I take God beg you. Was she under a medical equipment for 20 years or so. If you can't see people's motive you can't truly know their aim. This one is a witch and the Lord would again dismiss all these attack weapons against Trump.


Since she has been waiting for this moment. It shouldn't be a problem if she waits till he completes his tenure then she can come up with her nonsense again by then

Blindersoff:


Justice delayed should not be Justice denied. She says she was raped and provided evidence despite Trump denying as he always does when things go south for him. Now all he has to do is provide his DNA and prove he did not rape her and thus get more love from the American people. How would proving you are innocent tarnish your image?

Trump is not going anywhere Mister man ..you are waiting for him to go so Islamic terrorism can have a free reign once more but you lie ..Better go and face the job evil Buhari gave you and stop wishing .

women can lie. But the thing is, when they speak everybody believe.

You just have to laugh at how desperate and vindictive some of these lots can get.

You waited until he became president for you to suddenly seek justice with the clothe you wore when you were raped.

I wonder where all these is supposed to be leading?

It’s disgusting and sickening why some females would just always want to destroy men.

GamalNasser:


Trump is not going anywhere Mister man ..you are waiting for him to go so Islamic terrorism can have a free reign once more but you lie ..Better go and face the job evil Buhari gave you and stop wishing .

This one still thinks i am Muslim sha

I am bonafide Igbo Nwokem so you can throw your vomit in another direction

Our aggressive blodas will not agree

Blindersoff:


This one still thinks i am Muslim sha

I am bonafide Igbo Nwokem so you can throw your vomit in another direction

You are a Muslim Mister man you can't fool me

Did she report the rape to appropriate authority when it happened over 20yrs ago?

GamalNasser:



You are a Muslim Mister man you can't fool me

Yet your moniker says Gamal Nasser but i am the Muslim.

So many daft humans on this forum sha

Ojiofor:
Did she report the rape to appropriate authority when it happened over 20yra ago?

She obviously did which is why it was documented

Her mission is to tarnish the image of president trump. We are really in the end time.

Malevolent people everywhere

Blindersoff:


She obviously did which is why it was documented

No mention of that in this report.

Fear women!

Damnnnnn niggarrr

Like seriously

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Foolish woman...Too much of freedom na him dey worry una.

Go China go try that nonsense.

Naso

This is how they go about seeking for who to pull down.
Devilish idiotic woman.

Those of you out to destroy the second term ambition of a performing president can't succeed in your wicked adventure in Jesus name .

The lying rapist son of a bitch will be voted out by Nov 2020.

Pelosi doesn't know when to give up...

They should let this man be na.

Enemy of progress, they are always happy when they bring you down, una go die horribly