Judge Lewis Kaplan denied former President Donald Trump's motion for a summary judgment in the defamation case brought by author E. Jean Carroll.

Kaplan said that Trump's four grounds he argued to dismiss the lawsuit "are without merit" in a filing on Thursday.

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The judge denied Trump's assertions of presidential immunity, not defamatory per se, were nonactionable opinion, or that Carroll consented to the allegedly defamatory statements.

The lawsuit was filed by Carroll in 2019, with the author accusing Trump of raping her at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s.

Carroll's lawyers recently sought to amend the complaint to include comments Trump made about the verdict of the other lawsuit. Earlier this week, Trump filed a counterlawsuit against Carroll on defamation charges for accusing the former president of raping her.

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In a separate lawsuit filed by Carroll, a New York jury found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse against Carroll in civil court. Trump was not found liable for rape.

The 2019 lawsuit had been on hold after Kaplan denied a motion in April to merge this lawsuit and the one that was decided last month.