Trump offers to provide DNA samples from rape accuser if she does

Former President Donald Trump has offered to provide his rape accuser, journalist E. Jean Carroll, with a DNA sample as a quid pro quo.

What happened: Trump attorney Joseph Tacopina told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a letter last week that the former president was willing to give a sample on the condition that Carroll turn over the missing pages of a forensic report on the dress she claimed to have worn on the day of the assault, Bloomberg reported.

Tacopina said Carroll would "suffer no prejudice or unfair prejudice as a result of the production of the full DNA report".

Why it matters: Tacopina says Carroll's attorneys refused the last 12 pages of a 37-page DNA report generated by a California lab at his request, Bloomberg reported .

Submitted pages reportedly indicate that several people's DNA was found on a black dress she kept after the incident which dates back to the 1990s.

Tacopina suggested in his letter that Trump was not among those whose DNA was found on the dress.

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the plaintiff requested Trump's DNA in January 2020, but was "unequivocally" denied, according to the report.

Kaplan said, 'There is no DNA evidence in this case' and none will be presented at trial."

Carroll's attorney called Trump's motion "another bad faith and legally frivolous delay tactic," according to the report.

The former president is expected to testify for the trial, which begins on April 25.

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