Judge rejects late offer by Trump legal team to provide DNA sample to rebut E. Jean Carroll's rape claim

A federal judge says former President Donald Trump has missed his chance to use his DNA to try to prove he didn't rape a longtime magazine advice columnist, clearing away a potential roadblock to an April trial.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Wednesday rejected the 11th-hour offer by Trump's legal team to provide a DNA sample to rebut claims E. Jean Carroll first made publicly in a 2019 book.

Kaplan said that lawyers for Trump and Carroll had over three years to make DNA an issue in the case and that both chose not to do so.