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Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2023 23:39:43 GMT
The civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump has started. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer discusses the latest with CNN correspondent Paula Reid and CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2023 17:37:35 GMT
Nearly 30 years after she says former President Donald Trump raped her, E. Jean Carroll is expected to testify about it at a New York courthouse on Wednesday. Former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll, testifying in her defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump, described being "almost too frightened to think" during what she alleges was an attack by Trump in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations. "'Hey you're that advice lady,'" Carroll said Trump told her when the two ran into each other near the store entrance. "I said, 'You're that real estate tycoon,'" Carroll recalled. "I'm an advice columnist and here's Donald Trump asking for advice helping to buy a present," Carroll said. "I was delighted to go to lingerie with him." At that point, the tone of their conversation was "very joshing," Carroll said. "He was having a good time and so was I." Carroll told the jury that Trump led her into a dressing room under the guise of trying on some lingerie. "That door has plagued me for years because I just walked into it," she said. "He immediately shut the door and shoved me up against the wall and shoved my so hard my head banged." "Were you afraid while all this was happening?" Ferrara asked. "I was almost too frightened to think if I was afraid or not. My whole reason for being alive at that moment was to get out of that room," answered Carroll, who said that Trump then raped her. Asked later in her testimony how she felt about entering the dressing room, Carroll answered, "It was very stupid. I know people have been through a lot worse than this, but it left me, it left me unable to have a romantic life again." Trump has denied all allegations that he raped Carroll or defamed her. Carroll told the jury that she first met Trump in 1987 -- but she struggled to pinpoint the year that she alleges he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2023 3:21:57 GMT
Here's what happened inside the courtroom during the defamation and battery case against the former president as columnist E. Jean Carroll shared details during first day of witness testimony.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2023 18:13:30 GMT
Ana Cabrera speaks with former US Attorney Joyce Vance and NBC News Correspondent Ron Allen at the courthouse where E. Jean Caroll takes the stand for a second day of testimony in her civil rape case against Donald Trump
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2023 13:32:28 GMT
Journalist E. Jean Carroll plans to call nearly a dozen more witnesses in her rape and defamation trial against Donald Trump, but former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance says she’s already heard enough. She joined MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez to share her predictions about the rest of Carroll’s testimony and the outcome of the case.
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