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Fed lawyers: Trump not liable for 'crude' remarks at accuser

by Larry Neumeister
| June 7, 2021 9:03 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump cannot be held personally liable for “crude" and “disrespectful” remarks he made while president about a woman who accused him of rape, Justice Department lawyers said Monday in arguing for him to be replaced by the United States as defendant in a defamation lawsuit.

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