Trump lawyer questions E. Jean Carroll at rape lawsuit trial
A writer who accused Donald Trump of raping her in a luxury department store in the 1990s testified for a second day Thursday at a civil trial, saying a fresh onslaught of insults on social media did nothing to diminish her pride to be in court.
Donald Trump's lawyer sought Thursday to pick apart a decades-old rape claim against the former president, questioning why accuser E. Jean Carroll did not scream or seek help when Trump allegedly attacked her in a department store.
But Carroll, a writer and former advice columnist, rebuffed the suggestion that rape victims are supposed to act a certain way, saying such thinking deters women from coming forward.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m telling you, he raped me, whether I screamed or not," Carroll said, her voice rising and breaking, at the in New York.
Carroll, who is suing Trump over the alleged assault, claims he raped her in a dressing room at the posh Manhattan store in 1996. She did not go to police and said she only told two close friends at the time.
Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina suggested her claims strained credulity, contending that she only came forward in 2019 바카라 게임 웹사이트 midway through Trump's presidency 바카라 게임 웹사이트 because of her disdain for his politics and because she wanted to sell copies of her book.
Trump, 76, says the encounter never happened, that he doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t know Carroll and that she바카라 게임 웹사이트s not his 바카라 게임 웹사이트type" 바카라 게임 웹사이트 comments that are at the heart of the . The complaint seeks unspecified damages and a retraction of the comments.
Trump did not mention the trial during a campaign event Thursday in Manchester, New Hampshire. He's not expected in court, though his lawyers have not entirely ruled it out. Jurors are expected to see parts of a videotaped deposition he gave in the case.
On Wednesday, Trump launched a counterattack against the trial on social media, telling followers on his Truth Social platform that the case was 바카라 게임 웹사이트a made up SCAM바카라 게임 웹사이트 and alluding to a DNA issue that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has barred from the trial.
The outburst drew a rebuke and a warning from Kaplan, who called it 바카라 게임 웹사이트entirely inappropriate.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Consistent and unruffled in her second day of testimony, Carroll grew frustrated as Tacopina zeroed in on how she says she behaved during the alleged assault. She says it happened after a chance run-in with Trump at luxury retailer Bergdorf Goodman in spring 1996.
바카라 게임 웹사이트You can바카라 게임 웹사이트t beat up on me because I didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t scream,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Carroll forcefully told Tacopina. She had explained in that she was 바카라 게임 웹사이트not a screamer 바카라 게임 웹사이트 I'm a fighter.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Carroll, 79, said that if she were lying about the assault, she would바카라 게임 웹사이트ve told people she had screamed because 바카라 게임 웹사이트more people would have believed me.바카라 게임 웹사이트
But, she emphasized, 바카라 게임 웹사이트I don't need an excuse for not screaming.바카라 게임 웹사이트
When Tacopina used the word 바카라 게임 웹사이트supposedly바카라 게임 웹사이트 to cast doubt on her claim, she immediately and sternly rebuked him.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Not 바카라 게임 웹사이트supposedly.바카라 게임 웹사이트 I was raped,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she said.
바카라 게임 웹사이트That바카라 게임 웹사이트s your version, Ms. Carroll, that you were raped,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Tacopina said.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Those are the facts,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she replied.
She did, however, concede that some details of her story 바카라 게임 웹사이트 including the lack of witnesses in a department store 바카라 게임 웹사이트 were 바카라 게임 웹사이트difficult to conceive of.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Seeking to make that point, Tacopina questioned Carroll about her testimony that she eventually fought Trump off while wearing 4-inch heels and without letting go of her purse.
The lawyer underscored, through his questions, that she didn't seek help from anyone in the store as she allegedly fled by riding six flights down an escalator, didn't ask about security video and didn't seek medical attention or call police.
Carroll said she initially felt charmed by Trump as he asked for her help finding a women's gift, exchanged jokes with her about trying on a see-through garment and led her into a dressing room. Even when he slammed the door and shoved her into the wall, she said, she couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t help but laugh and think there had been some mistake or misunderstanding.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Carroll testified as jurors listened attentively.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Then he put his mouth against mine,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트and I understood.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Carroll said Trump yanked down her tights and raped her before she kneed him and fled. She said she would have kept the accusation secret forever if not for the #MeToo movement, which gained prominence in 2017.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
Carroll sued in November after New York state enacted a law allowing lawsuits over long-ago claims of sexual assault.
Carroll said Thursday that a look at social media once the trial started revealed fresh insults against her as people labeled her a 바카라 게임 웹사이트liar, slut, ugly, old.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트But I couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t be more proud to be here,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she testified.
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Associated Press Writer Larry Neumeister contributed to this story.