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☆ What E. Jean Carroll had to prove to win her case against Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Carroll receiving a monetary award from this trial hinged on whether the jury unanimously believed her claims against Trump. “For E. Jean Carroll this lawsuit is not about the money,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said during closing arguments on Monday. Trump appears the most agitated on the video when he denies Carroll’s rape allegation. Two friends that Carroll testified she told soon after the alleged rape testified about their recollection of Carroll’s account in 1996. Tacopina in his closing argument Monday also accused Carroll of fabricating her rape allegations to sell her book.

A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll. "They're trying to take parts of Donald Trump you dislike and stretch it over Ms. Carroll's story," Tacopina said. Carroll's lawyers, for their part, said their willingness to bring the case to court only made them more believable. "There wasn't even a 'he said,' because Donald Trump never even looked you in the eye and said she was a liar," Ferrara said. "You heard from Donald Trump himself — this is just how he treats women," Ferrara said.

☆ Six notable moments from Trump's civil rape trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Jack Queen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"If you're normally a Bill and you're selected for the jury or even before, you can be John for a couple of days," Kaplan told prospective jurors. -Facing repeated questioning from Trump’s attorney about why she did not scream during the alleged assault, Carroll lost patience and raised her voice. -Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina claimed during his closing argument that Carroll’s lawsuit was a cash grab, publicity stunt and political mission rolled into one. "What E. Jean Carroll has done here is an affront to justice. She has abused this system by bringing a false claim for amongst other things money, status, political reasons," Tacopina said.

☆ Why battery, not rape? E. Jean Carroll's own testimony against Donald Trump helps explain Manhattan verdict
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. That jury on Tuesday awarded her $5 million in damages, after finding Trump civilly liable for sexual battery, but not for rape. he asked Carroll. "We were basically the same height," Carroll told Tacopina during cross examination. "So you are saying," Tacopina asked, "that you got your knee up to his — it would be waist, as high as his waist?"

☆ That Access Hollywood tape is grabbing Trump by the credibility as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial nears its end
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's 'Access Hollywood' tape is in evidence as deliberations begin Tuesday in his civil rape trial. Either way, the Access Hollywood tape — in which he bragged to TV personality Billy Bush about kissing women and grabbing them by the genitals — has been a major factor in the two-week trial. Trump himself has defended his remarks as "locker room talk," including in a videotaped trial deposition played for jurors last week. "Historically, that's true with stars," Trump said of the Access Hollywood tape, when asked about it by Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan. "They played that Access Hollywood tape how many times?"

Lawyers for Carroll and the former U.S. president delivered closing arguments on Monday in Manhattan federal court after seven days of a civil trial. Carroll, 79, claims Trump, 76, raped her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996, and then defamed her by denying it happened. Trump opted not to present a defense at trial, gambling that jurors will find Carroll failed to make a persuasive case. Jurors heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told jurors during closing arguments that the haziness of Carroll’s account made it impossible for Trump to defend himself.

☆ Trump to appeal sexual abuse, defamation ruling -lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsTrump to appeal sexual abuse, defamation ruling -lawyerPostedDonald Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina told reporters on Tuesday (May 9) that the former president plans to appeal, after a jury found he sexually abused magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar.

☆ Tears and laughter: Amid harrowing rape testimony, E. Jean Carroll joked of Trump, men, and three-bean salad
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"I don't particularly like getting attention because I'm suing Donald Trump," she clarified, pausing a beat, then adding, "Getting attention for making a great three-bean salad? Trump told her he once considered buying Bergdorf Goodman, she told jurors. Tacopina asked Carroll. "So you joked around about having sex with Donald Trump for money in this Facebook post, correct?" Tacopina asked.

☆ Trump told reporters he would 'confront' the 'false' rape accusation made against him by E. Jean Carroll. He has officially missed the final deadline to testify.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump will officially not be testifying at his civil rape trial. The former president was given a deadline after telling reporters he would attend. Closing arguments for the case are set for Monday, and the jury will begin deliberating Tuesday. Despite these statements, his lead attorney Joe Tacopina insisted at the hearing that Trump waived his right to testify. Lawyers for Carroll and Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A New York state judge muzzled Trump with a social media gag order in his hush-money indictment. The order also stops Trump from publicly discussing details about witnesses involved in the case or any other evidence prosecutors plan to use against him. Three weeks later, during a hearing that Trump notably skipped, prosecutors changed their tune, asking for an official protective order around the case. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina called the request "extreme" earlier this month, and said any gag order should be equally applied to all parties, including prosecutors. Read the four-page court order:

☆ Trump's rape trial defense? His accuser and her friends have Trump Derangement Syndrome
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Donald Trump's lawyers have tried to undermine E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of rape. Just moments later, Trump's lawyers rested their case as well, without presenting any evidence. Carroll and her friends, Trump's lawyers suggest, all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. According to Trump's lawyers, the whole lawsuit is a conspiracy schemed up by ardent Trump critic George Conway. AP Photo/John MinchilloTrump's attorney pointed out that Birnbach had said Trump and his allies had symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

☆ Watch the Donald Trump deposition for his rape trial, where he mixes up accuser E. Jean Carroll with his ex-wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump was deposed for a rape and defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. Under oath, Trump denied the rapeIn response to deposition questions by Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan, Trump continued to deny raping Carroll, as she alleged, and called her "mentally sick" and "not my type." In the deposition, Trump said he seldom purchased gifts for women he dated and denied that he publicly dated other women while married to Maples. AP Photo/John MinchilloTrump appeared to mix up various timeframes throughout the deposition video shown to jurors. Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina has said Trump will not testify in the Carroll trial, and rested the defense case on Thursday afternoon without bringing any witnesses.

☆ Opinion | E. Jean Carroll Must Be Going Through Hell
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The story is schematic and the script, by the end, turns didactic, but Comer’s blazing, magnificent performance elevates the show into greatness. I kept thinking about “Prima Facie” as I sat in the Manhattan courtroom where E. Jean Carroll is suing Donald Trump for battery and defamation stemming from a rape that she alleges occurred in the mid-1990s. “The lived experience of sexual assault is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel,” Tessa says. Both sides rested on Thursday — the Trump camp declined to call a single witness — and closing arguments are scheduled for Monday. Two of Carroll’s friends, Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin, testified that Carroll told them that Trump had assaulted her shortly after it happened.

☆ Watch Trump defend his lewd 'Access Hollywood' comments in deposition video: 'Historically, that's true with stars'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In it, Trump defended his "Access Hollywood" comments about grabbing women between the legs. The new clip is part of a 48-minute deposition video and was shown to jurors in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. In the "Access Hollywood" recording, Trump bragged about how women "let you" kiss them, saying stars "can do anything." In the deposition video, Trump watches the tape, expressionless. The Washington Post was the first to publish the "Access Hollywood" tape a month before the 2016 election.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's friend testifies that they didn't 'scheme' to make up a rape allegation to 'stop' Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Ashley Collman | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Testimony continued in E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on Thursday. Carol Martin told jury about how Carroll confided in her about the alleged rape in the mid-1990s. Former President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll. "I'm here because I want to reiterate and remember what my friend E. Jean Carroll told me 27 years ago. In another message, Martin said she thinks Carroll was "acting a little scary" and was "in too deep" but "loving the adulation."

☆ E. Jean Carroll rests case in civil trial after jurors see video of Trump confusing her with his ex-wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Adam Reiss | Dareh Gregorian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll rested her civil case against Donald Trump on Thursday, shortly after jurors were shown a deposition video of the former president confusing the accuser with his ex-wife Marla Maples. "It's Marla," Trump said during a deposition for the case when shown a picture of him, Carroll and Carroll's ex-husband in the 1980s. The end of Carroll's case potentially paves the way for the trial to move to closing arguments on Monday. Asked if he was going to the trial, he said, "I'll probably attend," according to a Sky News video of his remarks. In the deposition, Trump also mocked two other women who've accused him of sexual misconduct: Jessica Leeds, a retired stockbroker, and Natasha Stoynoff, a former People magazine reporter.

☆ Trump attorneys will seek to move criminal hush money case to federal court
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Summer Concepcion | Chloe Atkins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York state court to federal court, his attorneys said during a hearing on Thursday. Trump's lawyers will seek the venue change sometime later Thursday, attorney Todd Blanche said towards the end of the hearing. During the hearing, attorneys for the Manhattan district attorney's office and Trump reiterated previous arguments regarding the proposed protective order. Trump's attorneys slammed the proposed protective order as "extremely restrictive" and argued that it infringes on their client's right to free speech. NBC News and other outlets oppose the prosecutor's proposed protective order to limit the public use of evidence ahead of trial, which includes potentially requiring the sealing or redaction of certain items.

☆ Trump given until Sunday morning to change his mind about possible surprise testimony in E. Jean Carroll case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump told reporters in Ireland that he'll 'probably' attend his Manhattan civil rape trial. A judge has given Trump until Sunday morning to change his mind and decide to take the stand. Trump won't be coming to court to testify, Tacopina told the judge. "A few minutes before I came into court this morning," Tacopina answered. "And I think it's a disgrace," Trump told reporters, "that it's allowed to happen, false accusations against a rich guy, or in my case against a famous, rich and political person."

☆ Trump won't call any witnesses to defend him in E. Jean Carroll rape trial, his lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump's lawyers won't call witnesses in his defense in his rape and defamation trial. E. Jean Carroll sued the former president for allegedly raping her and then trashing her in public. Trump hasn't personally shown up to the trial, which has been going on for a week in Manhattan federal court. That means Trump won't present any case at all in the ex-president's defense. The attorney also said witnesses will see videos of a sworn deposition Trump took for the case prior to the trial, where he denies Carroll's allegations.

On Tuesday, Tacopina said the 76-year-old Trump would not testify before the jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Trump has not appeared in that court since the trial began last week. Carroll, 79, alleges that Trump raped her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan after a chance encounter with him there. Trump has also said he would not have even had consensual sex with her because she was not his "type." However, during questioning under oath by Carroll's lawyer for his deposition, Trump mistook Carroll for his former wife Marla Maples in a photo that shows Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson with Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump.

☆ Trump won't testify in E. Jean Carroll civil rape defamation trial, his lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks his plane "Trump Force One" at Aberdeen Airport on May 1, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Donald Trump will not testify in the civil trial where writer E. Jean Carroll accuses the former president of rape and defamation, his attorney Joe Tacopina told a federal judge Tuesday, according to NBC News. Trump's attendance in the trial, which began last week, was previously an open question. Tacopina had told Judge Lewis Kaplan that Trump would decide on his plans "during the court of the trial." Another witness, Jessica Leeds, alleged in testimony Tuesday that Trump had groped her on an airplane in the 1970s.

Jessica Leeds, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the 70s, said he recognized her two years later. Leeds testified at E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation trial against Trump on Tuesday. Leeds testified in the E. Jean Carroll rape and defamation trial against Trump on Tuesday, saying she was a traveling saleswoman at the time of the alleged assault in 1979. Leeds said Trump recognized her, saying: "I remember you, you're that cunt from the airplane." In recent years, Leeds has spoken out about the alleged assault, detailing both the airplane incident and Trump's later comment in interviews.

☆ 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.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - E. Jean Carroll returned to the witness stand in her rape and defamation civil case against Donald Trump, after the judge denied a defense request for a mistrial. Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina began cross-examining Carroll for a second day, hoping to show jurors inconsistencies or holes in her claims against the former U.S. president. In seeking a mistrial, Tacopina wrote an 18-page letter early on Monday accusing U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of bias against Trump. Trump's lawyer also challenged Kaplan's statement that Trump might be "sailing in harm's way" after his son Eric Trump discussed on Twitter how LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman was helping fund Carroll's case. TRUMP NOT ATTENDING TRIALA businessman-turned-politician, Trump has not attended Carroll's trial, and on Monday was in Scotland for a short trip to visit his golf courses there and eventually in Ireland.

☆ Donald Trump requests mistrial in rape accuser Carroll's civil case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Donald Trump has requested a mistrial in a civil case where the writer E. Jean Carroll is accusing him of rape and defamation, according to a letter from the former U.S. president. In a letter filed early Monday in Manhattan federal court, Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina cited several alleged errors by the judge, including that it mischaracterized parts of the case and interfered with his ability to defend Trump. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York, Editing by Louise HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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