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Rathinor posted...

Trump is having the DOJ take over from his personal legal team as defense for a rape case that happened before he was president.

Trump is using taxpayer money to fight his rape crimes. This is probably because his campaign itself is running out of money.

Thanks, I also found the NYT article

https://rb.gy/7wtidv

"The closest similar case came in 2005, Mr. Vladeck said, when a federal court in Washington ruled that government lawyers could defend Cass Ballenger, then a Republican representative from North Carolina, in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Mr. Vladeck said that while it was fairly uncommon for the Justice Department to assume the defense of a private matter on behalf of any government official, it was even more extraordinary for department lawyers to seek to shield Mr. Trumps personal behavior behind a screen of sovereign immunity. If the federal judge in Manhattan assigned to the case agreed with the departments arguments, Ms. Carrolls lawsuit would effectively be over, Mr. Vladeck said."