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☆ Trump lawyer quizzes E. Jean Carroll about 'scheming' with her friend before going public with rape allegation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina questioned rape accuser E. Jean Carroll on the stand on Thursday. The email Martin sent Carroll in September 2017 included a link to a humorous New Yorker column mocking Trump, who Martin called "orange crush." Joe Tacopina, left, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, arrives at a Manhattan federal court for the E. Jean Carroll trial. Tacopina drew particularly attention to the fact that, two weeks after the email exchange, Carroll began work on "What Do We Need Men For?" In addition to Martin, Carroll said she told another friend, Lisa Birnbach, of the alleged rape right after it happened.

Under questioning from her lawyers on Wednesday, Carroll testified in graphic detail about how Trump allegedly assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump has consistently denied the allegations and claimed that Carroll made them up to sell books and hurt him politically. Lawyers for Carroll are expected to resume their questioning on Thursday, and Trump's team will then get to cross-examine her. He scorned the case in Wednesday posts on his Truth Social platform, saying Carroll was promoting a "fraudulent & false story" and calling her lawyer a "political operative." U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan warned that Trump could face more legal problems if he kept discussing the case outside of court, and twice advised Trump's legal team to speak with the former president about it.

☆ E. Jean Carroll attacks Trump lawyer for questioning why she didn't scream during alleged rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump's lawyer grilled E. Jean Carroll about why she didn't scream as Trump allegedly raped her. "Some women scream. Joe Tacopina, one of Trump's attorneys in the case, asked Carroll why she didn't scream. Tacopina repeatedly asked about different reasons why she didn't scream to draw attention during the struggle. "I'm not beating up on you, Ms. Carroll," Tacopina responded.

☆ E. Jean Carroll concludes direct testimony in trial accusing Trump of rape
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Aaron Cooper | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“I think rape is one of the most violent and horrible things that can happen to a woman or a man,” Carroll said. Getting attention for being raped is not – It’s hard. Getting attention for making a great three-bean salad, that would be good,” she said. Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations. And Carroll said that negative comments about her followed Trump’s statement.

Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, said nothing publicly about the encounter for decades before publishing a memoir in 2019 that accused Mr. Trump of attacking her. Mr. Trump has not appeared in court since the trial began on Tuesday and his lawyer has not said whether or not he will. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have suggested she invented the story to boost sales of her book. They have also contended that she and her friends schemed to hurt Mr. Trump politically. One of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Joseph Tacopina, hinted in his opening statement what other lines of questioning Ms. Carroll might expect on cross-examination.

In a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump asked E. Jean Carroll, the writer who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, whether she had screamed for help. “I’m not a screamer,” Ms. Carroll responded, adding that she was in a panic during the encounter in a dressing room. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.”Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said he was not doing that, but Ms. Carroll, her voice rising, said from the witness stand that women often keep silent about an attack because they fear being asked what they could have done to stop it. “They are always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’” Ms. Carroll said. “I’m telling you, he raped me, whether I screamed or not,” she declared.

☆ Testimony in Trump rape accuser's civil trial starts, as Trump attacks claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] E. Jean Carroll, Former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, departs following the start of a civil case at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S., April 25, 2023. Carroll was about 52 and Trump was 49 at the time of the alleged rape. The first witness to testify, Cheryl Beall, described the layout of the store where the alleged rape occurred. Carroll, 79, is suing Trump for defamation after he denied her rape claim in an October post on Truth Social. Other possible witnesses for Carroll include two friends in whom she confided about Trump's alleged rape, and two other women who have accused Trump of sexual assault.

☆ Testimony in Trump rape accuser's trial gets underway
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] E. Jean Carroll, Former U.S. President Donald Trump rape accuser, departs following the start of a civil case at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S., April 25, 2023. Carroll, 79, is suing Trump for defamation after he denied her rape claim in an October post on his Truth Social platform. The trial before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan is expected to last one to two weeks. Other possible witnesses for Carroll include two friends in whom she confided about Trump's alleged rape, and two other women who have accused Trump of sexual assault. He is not required to appear at the trial, and his lawyer Joe Tacopina said on Tuesday he was "not sure" whether Trump would testify.

"I'm here because Trump raped me," Carroll testified. Trump's posts mentioned two issues that Judge Lewis Kaplan had warned parties in the trial not to mention to jurors. Carroll alleges Trump assaulted her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in or around 1996. In his first Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump wrote, "The E. Jean Carroll case, Ms. Bergdorf Goodman, is a made up SCAM. "Just look at her CNN interview before & after the commercial break - Like a different person," Trump wrote, referring to an interview Carroll gave CNN about the lawsuit.

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.

Trump's Truth Social posts blasting E. Jean Carroll may be "tampering" the jury, the judge warned. Judge Kaplan pointed out that Trump had, for years, dodged taking a DNA test that would help determine the merits of Carroll's allegations. "It's as if you just told me yesterday was the Fourth of July," Judge Kaplan said. Judge Kaplan called Trump's Truth Social posts "a public statement that seems entirely inappropriate" and warned it may cross the line into "tampering" with the case. In an October 2022 post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: "This 'Ms.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman contributed money to a nonprofit funding E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Trump. The judge said Wednesday that jurors couldn't hear evidence related to his funding of the case. The issue of whether billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman contributed money towards E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against the former president, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said, "would be prejudicial" because it has no bearing on Carroll's allegations. "The whole subject of litigation funding is precluded," the judge said Wednesday afternoon in a downtown Manhattan courtroom. The funding issue had no bearing on the merits of Carroll's claims, Kaplan said earlier.

☆ E. Jean Carroll said she can still feel Trump's 'curved finger' in rape trial testimony
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll testified in her rape and defamation lawsuit against Trump on Wednesday. She said she didn't report the rape because she was afraid he's retaliate, but told two friends. Once inside Carroll said Trump closed the door and "shoved me so hard my head banged" against the wall. E. Jean Carroll outside of US Federal Court in Manhattan Getty Images"I didn't want to make scene. He'll bury you," Carroll said Martin told her.

Just before she began testifying in federal court, the former president infuriated the judge overseeing the case by railing against the proceeding on social media. Mr. Trump, who has so far avoided the trial, was not there as Ms. Carroll related a tale she said she had waited decades to tell. “Being able to get my day in court, finally, is everything to me,” she said, her shaky voice rising. I thought it was my fault,” she said, describing how she had initially been laughing and joking with Mr. Trump after she ran into him at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. It was funny, and then to have it turn into the …” Her voice then trailed off.

☆ Judge in E. Jean Carroll trial warns Trump about social media comments
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —The judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump warned the former president’s counsel on Wednesday about comments their client made on social media about the case. Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, outside the presence of the jury, flagged to federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan a post Trump made on his social media site Truth Social earlier Wednesday about the lawsuit. Trump has denied the allegations. Judge Kaplan warned Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina that the statement and any further statements about the case could open Trump up to “a new source of potential liability.” Tacopina said he would ask his client to refrain from any further comments about the case. Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her at Bergdorf Goodman in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations.

☆ E. Jean Carroll testifies: 'Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll took the stand Wednesday morning in her battery and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen,” Carroll testified. Beall worked at the luxury department store for a decade until about 1998, and had an office on the sixth floor adjacent to the lingerie department where Carroll has alleged Trump raped her. The fitting room door locked automatically when closed, she testified. Beall said the store had a practice of keeping fitting room doors closed while not in use, but they’d “regularly” be left open.

Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to New York fraud charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and faces a civil fraud lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. In Ms. Carroll’s case, her lawyers will ask the jury to find Mr. Trump liable for battery and defamation, and if he is found responsible, to award monetary damages. Ms. Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, said nothing publicly about the encounter for decades before publishing a memoir in 2019 that accused Mr. Trump of attacking her. In court on Tuesday, Ms. Crowley took the jury through a meticulous account of how Ms. Carroll’s chance encounter with Mr. Trump at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan began with humor and friendly teasing. She agreed, thinking it would make for a funny story, Ms. Crowley said.

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.

☆ Trump lawyer says jurors should dismiss rape case even if they 'hate' ex-president
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Lawyers made opening statements in E. Jean Carroll's rape trial against Donald Trump. Trump's lawyer asked jurors to dismiss the case even if they "hate" Trump. "She struggled to break free, but she couldn't," Crowley said in her opening statement. Despite the charged nature of the case, jurors were seated in the span of several hours, shortly before the court's lunch break on Tuesday. In one video, Tacopina, said, jurors may observe that Trump appears angry.

☆ Judge makes thinly-veiled attempt to silence Trump during rape trial, advising parties against statements that could 'incite violence'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge asked both parties not to make statements that could "incite violence." Opening statements are expected to kick off today in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and rape lawsuit against Trump. The lunatics will fail and President Trump will Make America Great Again!" In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., April 14, 2023. CARROLL SAYS TRUMP CALLED HER 'THAT ADVICE LADY'Carroll said her encounter with Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman store occurred in late 1995 or early 1996. It also includes two other women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, which Trump also denies. Trump pleaded not guilty to those charges on April 4 at a New York state courthouse, a three-minute walk from Tuesday's trial. Carroll is also suing Trump for defamation after he first denied her rape claim in June 2019, when he was still president.

☆ Trump's deposition video will play in the E. Jean Carroll rape trial. He says stars 'historically' grabbed women's genitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's lawyers had fought to keep jurors from seeing parts of his E. Jean Carroll trial deposition. A judge Tuesday ruled Trump's cringey explanation for his Access Hollywood remarks is admissible. In the disputed cut, Trump says 'stars' have 'historically' been allowed to grab women's genitals. Trump's attorneys previously tried, without success, to bar jurors from hearing any mention of the Access Hollywood tape. Trump was asked by Carroll's lawyers in the deposition.

She told jurors they would also hear testimony from two other women who say Trump sexually assaulted them, which Trump denies. Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina countered in his opening statement that the evidence will show the former U.S. president did not assault Carroll. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts on April 4 at a New York state courthouse, a three-minute walk from Tuesday's trial. Trump did not attend the trial and is not required to, and according to lawyers from both sides is unlikely to testify. Carroll is also suing Trump for defamation after he first denied her rape claim in June 2019, when he was still president.

The federal trial began Tuesday for a civil lawsuit by a New York writer E. Jean Carroll, who accuses former President Donald Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. "Donald Trump assaulted her in 1996 and defamed her when he said she made it up." "Donald Trump assaulted Carroll but you will also hear that she is not the only one he has assaulted," the attorney said, referring to other women who have claimed Trump groped them against their will. "People have strong feelings about Donald Trump and it's OK to feel that way, Tacopina said. "It's OK to hate Donald Trump and there is a time and a place to express that.

☆ Jurors in the Trump rape case were advised to use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge in the case advised jurors to use fake names with each other. Before the jury was chosen, Kaplan addressed the group and suggested that they use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity. Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll walks into Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in New York. In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

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