Andrea Cabral: Why Is The DOJ Defending Trump In Defamation Lawsuit?

In this March 4, 2020, photo, E. Jean Carroll talks to reporters outside a courthouse in New York. The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll, who accused the president of raping her in a New York luxury department store in the mid-1990s.

Hannah Uebele is a producer for Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and previously worked as associate producer for Boston Public Radio. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in English and Environmental Studies. She's a proud Delawarean but has found herself saying "wicked" more and more often, so the Bostonian metamorphosis is well underway.Contact: hannah_uebele@wgbh.org

September 10, 2020

Updated August 07, 2023

The U.S. Department of Justice asked to step in to defend President Donald Trump on Tuesday against a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, accusing Trump of rape. Trump has denied the charge.

"The Justice Department intervened in this case in order to delay it past the election," Andrea Cabral told Boston Public Radio on Thursday. "Trump has been steadily losing all of the pre-trial rulings and motions, up to the point where he had been ordered by the judge to turn over his DNA."

Cabral is the former secretary of public safety and sheriff of Suffolk County. She is currently the CEO of Ascend.