"Former President Trump Agrees to Provide DNA in Rape Case After Three Years, But Timeliness May be an Issue"

Trump rape case: After 3 years, the former president finally agrees to submit DNA. Here's why it could be too late.

Former President Donald Trump has agreed to undergo DNA testing in a civil rape trial in New York federal court.

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The accuser, writer E. Jean Carroll, has been requesting a DNA sample from Trump for three years.

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Trump's lawyers are also demanding that the accuser provide the genome to be compared to.

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The filing argues that if the alleged sexual assault never occurred, then Trump's DNA would not be on the dress.

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The accuser and their lawyers would have to agree to the late evidence being admitted into the case.

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The writer alleges that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.

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Lawyers for both sides have not commented on the recent developments.

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