She also called the last-minute offer a "blatant effort to influence the jury pool" and "yet another bad faith and legally frivolous delay tactic."

 She also called the last-minute offer a "blatant effort to influence the jury pool" and "yet another bad faith and legally frivolous delay tactic." 

It's unclear if the judge will allow the last-minute DNA sample. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan (no relation to Carroll's attorney) has already complained multiple times about Trump's side dragging the case out with delay after delay.Kaplan, the attorney, explained in her response Friday that she and other attorneys for Carroll ultimately decided not to fight Trump over his DNA because they anticipated appeals that could slow down the process. 

"Carroll, now 79 years old, has built her case with powerful additional evidence and is ready to prove Trump's liability before a jury; she should not be prejudiced by Trump's latest gambit to violate the Court's orders and uproot the trial date," her lawyer wrote.  Tacopina declined to comment on Friday's filing. Kaplan said the response "speaks for itself." A photo from the lab report that Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll submitted in January, 2020as part of her defamation lawsuit against the former president. InsiderCarroll alleges Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.

She told two close friends about the alleged attack, but not the police.

"Women who have been raped are looked at in this society as less, are looked at as spoiled goods, are looked at as rather dumb," she explained of keeping quiet, recounting the attack in a sworn deposition for the case.Carroll kept the dress she says she was wearing at the time. Nearly 30 years later, lab tests recovered the skin cells of a yet-unidentified male on its sleeves, she has said in court filings.Her legal team, led by Kaplan, demanded a "buccal, blood or skin cell sample from Defendant sufficient for DNA analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress that Plaintiff wore during the sexual assault at issue in this action."The former president declined for three years to submit a sample for testing.E. Jean Carroll has accused Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s. Eva Dei

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