[#meToo!]
is defending his role in financing a New York author’s lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...of sexual assault — a landmark case that is set to go to trial next week.
Hoffman said Friday in a post on LinkedIn that his grant to a nonprofit backing E. Jean Carroll’s battery lawsuit against Trump fits with his drive to protect "American values" and "reinforce the importance of the rule of law, equality, and helping the disadvantaged."
"In general, I prefer to talk about these values and ideas over commenting on specific gifts that I’ve made," Hoffman said in the post. "But there is a theme to a number of them: protecting the rule of law from the threat posed by Donald Trump’s scorched-earth legal methods."
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, revealed Hoffman’s financing to Trump’s legal team in a letter earlier this month, prompting the former president’s attorney to send a letter to the judge questioning Carroll’s credibility and motives for suing. Hoffman’s Democratic connections backed Trump’s long-standing claim that the lawsuit was politically motivated, Trump’s legal team argued.
Roberta Kaplan had to resign from "Times Up" after she counseled Andrew Cuomo how to attack an aide who claimed sexual shenanigans against him. POS also represented a woman who claimed knowledge of Justice Kavaugh's sexual attack history. A real peach
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, declined to comment on Hoffman’s post.
She won court permission to seek evidence from Carroll’s lawyer to determine whether the writer had answered truthfully during her deposition last year when she said she wasn’t aware of any outside financing for her lawsuit.
Hoffman said in his post Trump’s legal team has characterized his support of Carroll as "secret."
"I want to be clear that I’ve never taken any steps to hide the financial support that I have provided to this lawsuit after it started," he wrote.
Kaplan has said there is nothing unusual about getting outside financing for lawsuits, including in cases that are politically charged.
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