Trump's suggestion that E. Jean Carroll was 'too ugly to rape' was too personal to be official business, appeal says

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• The DC Court of Appeals is deciding whether Trump can be sued for comments about E. Jean Carroll.
• Trump's lawyers argue he's legally protected from being sued for remarks he made as president.
• Carroll's team argues that Trump's denials of her rape allegation fell outside the scope of his job.

When then-President Donald Trump fiercely denied E. Jean Carroll's decades-old rape allegation in statements to the press in 2019...