Lawyer for journalist E Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped her, tells court they want his DNA

The lawyer for journalist E. Jean Carroll, who claims Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, told a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday that they want the former president’s DNA as part of their defamation case.

Carroll and her attorney Roberta Kaplan made the statements in front of Judge Lewis Kaplan during oral arguments examining Trump’s request to countersue the writer for defamation.

Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, alleged that Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City in either 1995 or 1996 in her book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, which was published in 2019.

Trump denied the allegations, claiming she was ‘totally lying’ to sell her book. He also said she was ‘not my type’ and that he had ‘never met’ her. Trump’s…