LinkedIn founder's funding of E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit causes controversy in Trump's rape trial.
TL;DR
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have alleged that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman provided legal funding for writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault lawsuit against Trump, raising questions about potential bias in the lawsuit. A lawyer for Carroll dismissed the allegations as "baseless." Carroll sued Trump in 2019 after he denied her allegation that he raped her in a dressing room of New York's Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Hoffman's philanthropic adviser defended the donation, saying that it was made before Carroll filed suit.
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