Washington – U.S. President Joe Biden’s Justice Department aimed to shield the presidency, not Donald Trump, with its latest action in a defamation case brought by a woman who accuses the former president of raping her, legal experts have said.
The case is one of two in recent weeks in which the administration has taken a position that shields the Republican Trump or those who served in his administration, angering liberals in Biden’s own Democratic Party.
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