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Court mulls: Was Trump’s reply to rape claim part of job?

FILE - President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, during an event to award Presidential Medal of Freedom, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. At a hearing Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, lawyers for former President Trump argued before a federal appeals court that the U.S. government should take his place as the defendant in the lawsuit filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - E. Jean Carroll, center, waits to enter a courtroom in New York for her defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, March 4, 2020. At a hearing Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, lawyers for former President Trump argued before a federal appeals court that the U.S. government should take his place as the defendant in the lawsuit filed by Carroll, who accused him of rape. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Court mulls: Was Trump’s reply to rape claim part of job?