Correspondence to “Made Up”: Trump’s alleged encounter with a woman in a dressing room at a department store
In court, Trump’s lawyer questioned writer E. JeanCarroll about her account that she was raped by Trump at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
Donald Trump raped me when I wrote about it, and he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try and get my life back,” she testified.
Trump denies E. Jean Carroll’s allegations. It is possible that he could testify at the trial, according to his lawyers.
Carroll, 79, has said she crossed paths with Trump at the revolving door to Bergdorf Goodman on an unspecified Thursday evening in spring 1996. At the time, she was writing a long-running advice column in Elle magazine. Trump was a real estate magnate and social figure in New York.
She said that he asked her to suggest a gift for a lady, and she went along because she thought it would be funny. According to Carroll, they ended up in a lingerie department, joked with each other about who should try on a bodysuit and went to a dressing room.
She claimed that Trump slammed her against a wall, yanked her tights and raped her as she struggled against him. She claimed that she kneed him off her and fled.
The judge said Trump was trying to speak to the public, but that the jury in the case about things that don’t need to be spoken about was more troubling. He called Trump’s post “a public statement that, on the face of it, seems entirely inappropriate.”
On Wednesday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that the case was a made up scam and that her lawyer is a political operative, as a response to the trial.
Joe tacopina said that jurors are told not to follow online commentary about the case. He wants Trump to stop any further posts about this case.
The trial comes as Trump seeks the republican nomination for president and weeks after he pleaded not guilty to charges of paying porn actress to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with him.
In what could be several days of cross-examination, a promise was made by tacopina to investigate the alleged encounter betweenCarroll and Trump in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman.
The allegations against Weinstein surfaced the same day Carroll said she was embarking on a reporting trip for her book, which she originally envisioned as an homage to women who stood up to misbehaving men. She said that the cultural shift made her reveal what she said was done to her.
She said that the light had “come up”. The groundswell of women speaking out about sexual assault “caused me to realize that staying silent does not work, that if we speak up we have a chance of limiting the harm.”
The Trump-Carter trial is not expected to feature a witness or a client tampering with a new source of liability
The trial is not expected to feature Donald Trump as a witness. Jurors are expected to see parts of a videotaped deposition he gave in the case.
The judge said that the jury in the case was “more troublesome” because of the client’s attempt to speak to his public, but no business being spoken about.
After Tacopina promised to speak with Trump and ask him not to make further posts, Kaplan warned: “We are getting into an area, conceivably, in which your client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability.”
The trial results from a lawsuit Carroll filed in November after the state of New York enacted a law allowing adult victims of sexual assault to sue their attackers even if the assault occurred decades earlier.
In her testimony, she stated that writing about her interaction with Trump in the memoir caused her to be fired from her job at the magazine and lead to her buying bullets for a gun.
She said Thursday that a look at social media once the trial started revealed fresh insults against her as people labeled her a “liar, slut, ugly, old.”