A federal judge has ruled President Trump can be personally sued for defamation by E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s. The judge rejected an attempt by the Justice Department to switch the defendant in the case from Donald Trump to the U.S. government, claiming that Trump’s rape accusation denial was done in his official capacity as president. The judge ruled that the president is not an employee of the government and that Trump’s comments regarding the rape accusation “would not have been within the scope of his employment.”