Rape and defamation civil suit against Trump ends
A civil case in New York against Donald Trump accused of rape and defamation by a former journalist ended Monday with a final exchange of arms between lawyers.
After the last arguments of the two camps, long and quarrelsome, the billionaire E. A jury will begin Tuesday to decide whether to award Jean Carroll damages. The latter accused him of raping her in the fitting room of a luxury department store in New York in the spring of 1996, and then defaming her after making the first allegations in a book in 2019.
“No one, not even a former president, is above the law,” Hammer, the attorney for former “Elle” columnist Roberta Kaplan, opened her plea.
“They want you to hate him enough to ignore the facts,” responded at 2:30 p.m. Donald Trump’s adviser, Joe Tacobina, again accused the plaintiff of inventing the story of all the pieces.
No Trump
Donald Trump never appeared in federal court in Manhattan during the two-week trial, and had to make do Thursday with a video of his testimony at the jury trial, where he repeated that he did not remember E. Jean Carroll and assures “She’s not her type.”
But Roberta Kaplan recalled that the former White House tenant confused the plaintiff in a photo with his ex-wife, actress Marla Maples. E. Jean Carroll was “exactly his type,” the lawyer assured.
Twenty-five years ago Donald Trump and E. If there were no eyewitnesses who saw Jean Carroll on the shelves in the store – which, according to the plaintiff, was deserted – two friends of the journalist confirmed in court that he told them. After the alleged facts, “attack” or “assault” by the merchant.
Two of the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault in the past testified at the grand jury. According to Roberta Kaplan, the former president operated according to the same “modus operandi” every time, as she described in a famous video in 2005, in which we hear him boast about kissing and touching women as he pleased. .
“general knowledge”
Donald Trump’s lawyer admitted that his client could express himself in a “vulgar” way about women, but he said that “doesn’t make the incredible story believable”. Pointing to inconsistencies and a lack of material evidence, he appealed to the jury’s “common sense”: Donald Trump e. If Jean had assaulted Carroll in a furnished room, “he would have been arrested immediately”.
She said she “never went to the police”, otherwise “they would have investigated”. Describing an apparent conspiracy, even the lawyer E. Gene Carroll was inspired by an old episode of the police series “New York, Special Unit” based on a rape in the same store. According to him, the former journalist wanted to sell his book better in 2019.
E. Jean Carroll has always explained that Donald Trump does not denounce facts for fear of damaging his reputation. Her attorney recalled that she testified “over two days, answering every question,” especially “the reasons why she didn’t scream.” Donald Trump “never looked you in the eye to deny,” and, addressing the jury, another lawyer for E. Gene Carroll, Mike Ferrara.
Even in civil proceedings, a conviction would add to the legal troubles of the former president, a new candidate for the White House in 2024. In early April, an unprecedented event for a former US president, he was indicted on criminal charges. New York for 34 counts of accounting and tax fraud related to payments to cover up shady dealings before the 2016 presidential election.
AFP
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