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As the civil trial over the writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that former President Donald J. Trump raped her neared its end, one of her lawyers focused on the man who was missing from the courtroom. Mr. Trump did not testify on his own behalf or even show up. “He just decided not to be here,” the lawyer, Michael J. Ferrara, told the jury on Monday. The rape allegation, he said, was a complete invention. Mr. Tacopina took an uncompromising line during the two-week civil trial in Manhattan federal court, the first time that Mr. Trump, 76, who has faced years of allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with women, has had to answer such a claim at trial.

☆ The Trump Rape Trial Enters its Final Phase
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jonathan Wolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Trump rape trial enters its final phaseLawyers delivered closing arguments today in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of battery and defamation. Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a department store, in the mid-1990s. Trump did not testify nor did he attend the two-week trial. “The last few days really highlighted the gravity of a former president being on trial for a civil rape allegation,” said my colleague Kate Christobek. Trump’s lawyers, who called no witnesses, portrayed the accusations as improbable because the store was a public place and Trump was already famous at the time.

☆ Trump Denies E. Jean Carroll Rape Allegation in Video Deposition Played for Jurors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Author E. Jean Carroll, who arrived at court in New York City, has accused former President Donald Trump of rape, which he has denied. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg NewsDonald Trump testified in a recorded deposition that writer E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation against him was made up, calling her account “the most ridiculous, disgusting story.”A portion of the video of the deposition was played for jurors Wednesday during a civil trial on Ms. Carroll’s allegations that Mr. Trump raped her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan around 1996. The jury watched the video after hearing in person from a former People magazine reporter who said she was assaulted by Mr. Trump in 2005.

☆ E. Jean Carroll, Trump Lawyer Spar in Civil Rape Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Corinne Ramey | James Fanelli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A courtroom sketch shows Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina cross-examining E. Jean Carroll during a civil trial in New York. Photo: JANE ROSENBERG/REUTERSDonald Trump’s lawyer for a second day sought to discredit columnist E. Jean Carroll’s allegations that she was raped by the former president in a Manhattan department store, after a federal judge rejected Mr. Trump’s request for a mistrial in the civil case. Joe Tacopina, Mr. Trump’s lead attorney, suggested Ms. Carroll in the years since the alleged attack had acted in ways that were inconsistent with being a victim of sexual assault.

☆ What to Know About E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Benjamin Weiser | Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The writer E. Jean Carroll’s case accusing Donald J. Trump of raping her in a department-store dressing room continues Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The case against the former president, who has denied all wrongdoing, began last Tuesday and was expected to last one to two weeks. Mr. Trump’s lawyers on Monday filed a motion for a mistrial, arguing that the court had made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings.”Here’s what to know about the trial so far:The AccusationMs. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, says she visited the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, where she was a regular shopper, one evening in the mid-1990s. As she was leaving through a revolving side door on 58th Street, Mr. Trump entered through the same door, and recognized her, the suit says, and persuaded her to help him shop for a gift for a female friend. She has accused the former president of going on to attack her in a dressing room in the lingerie department.

☆ Trump Lawyer Challenges E. Jean Carroll’s Rape Account
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

E. Jean Carroll testifies in federal court at the civil trial in which she has accused Donald Trump of assaulting her. Photo: JANE ROSENBERG/REUTERSA lawyer for Donald Trump sparred with E. Jean Carroll at a civil trial Thursday, questioning the writer over what he said were inconsistencies in her allegations that the former president raped her in a New York City department store in the 1990s. Ms. Carroll testified for a second day in a New York federal court, where a jury is considering a lawsuit the longtime columnist filed last year against Mr. Trump that seeks damages for battery and defamation. She alleged in a 2019 book that Mr. Trump raped her in a dressing room in an unattended lingerie section of Bergdorf Goodman. Mr. Trump has denied the allegations.

On Wednesday, the judge said Mr. Trump’s out-of-court statements seemed “entirely inappropriate” and suggested Mr. Trump might be trying to influence members of the jury. “I will speak to my client and ask him to refrain from any further posts regarding this case,” Mr. Tacopina said. Mr. Tacopina said the day before that he did not yet know whether Mr. Trump would take the witness stand. Judge Kaplan said that he wanted an answer this week, adding that not knowing was an “imposition” on security and court staff. Ms. Carroll wrote that he pushed her against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights, opened his pants and then forced himself upon her.

In the suit, Ms. Carroll, 79, says that one evening in the mid-1990s, she visited the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, where she was a regular shopper. There, the suit says, she ran into Mr. Trump. He questioned several details of what Ms. Carroll has claimed: that no one else was present nearby, that the dressing room doors were unlocked and that Ms. Carroll fled without anyone seeing her. Ms. Carroll’s lawyers will ask the jury to find Mr. Trump liable for battery, and if he is found responsible, to award monetary damages. Here are some facts about the case:The New York State law that allowed Ms. Carroll to bring her suit isn’t even a year old.

☆ E. Jean Carroll, writer who accused Trump of 1990s rape, files new lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK — A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him Thursday in New York, minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago. Previously, Carroll had been barred by state law from suing over the alleged rape because too many years had passed since the incident. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presides over the defamation lawsuit Carroll filed three years ago, may decide to include the new claims in a trial likely to occur in the spring. Trump and Carroll also have already been deposed. Attorney Michael Madaio, a lawyer for Trump, said at the hearing that the new allegations are significantly different than the original defamation lawsuit and would require “an entirely new set” of evidence gathering.

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