MANHATTAN (CN) — Donald Trump cannot deploy the Department of Justice to shield him from a defamation suit brought by rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge  The president of the United States is not an “employee of the government” within the meaning of the relevant statutes,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote this morning, rejecting Trump’s motion to substitute the United States as the defendant in a defamation suit he faces.Carroll says Trump assaulted her in a department store in the 1990s before he was president, then defamed her in denying that he had never met her,...…MANHATTAN (CN) — Donald Trump cannot deploy the Department of Justice to shield him from a defamation suit brought by rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge  The president of the United States is not an “employee of the government” within the meaning of the relevant statutes,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote this morning, rejecting Trump’s motion to substitute the United States as the defendant in a defamation suit he faces.Carroll says Trump assaulted her in a department store in the 1990s before he was president, then defamed her in denying that he had never met her,...WW…