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US asks to defend Trump in rape accuser's defamation lawsuit

by Associated Press
| September 8, 2020 5:06 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape, and federal lawyers asked a court Tuesday to allow a move that could put the American people on the hook for any money she might be awarded.

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