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☆ 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.

☆ 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.

☆ 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.

Mr. Trump’s statement came after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, had said in court that Mr. Trump would not be coming to testify and that no witnesses would take the stand in Mr. Trump’s defense. It was unclear from Mr. Trump’s statement in Ireland whether he wants to testify or merely to observe the proceedings from the defense table. Judge Kaplan implied that Mr. Trump could face a contempt sanction. After Mr. Trump’s son, Eric, later in the day posted his own statement, on Twitter, criticizing the motivation of a prominent backer of Ms. Carroll’s case, Judge Kaplan implied from the bench that more serious remedies might be called for. Although he did not elaborate, he seemed to suggest Mr. Trump might be violating a federal law that prohibits efforts to corruptly influence or intimidate a juror in a trial.

☆ 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."

☆ 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."

☆ 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.

It was Ms. Martin who advised her not to go to the police, Ms. Carroll testified. Ms. Kaplan said they also expected that Ms. Carroll’s sister would testify. Ms. Kaplan said she planned to finish presenting Ms. Carroll’s case perhaps by midday on Thursday. “She said, ‘Lisa, you are not going to believe what happened to me,’” Ms. Birnbach testified. She said Ms. Carroll sounded “breathless, hyperventilating, emotional.”

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.

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.

The first person called was Lisa Birnbach, a journalist, author and close friend of Ms. Carroll. Ms. Carroll has said she called Ms. Birnbach shortly after the alleged rape. Ms. Carroll on Monday ended two days of cross-examination by Joseph Tacopina, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, about her allegation. Mr. Trump, who has avoided coming to court, has denied all wrongdoing. As she was leaving through a revolving door, Mr. Trump entered and recognized her, she has testified, and persuaded her to help him shop for a gift for a female friend.

☆ In Trump Trial, a Lawyer Pushes, and E. Jean Carroll Pushes Right Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Tacopina, with an expression of incredulity, tested Ms. Carroll on minute details of events of more than 30 years ago. He repeatedly asked her why she decided to come forward with the accusation when she did — an effort on his part to suggest to the jury ulterior motives: politics, money and fame. Ms. Carroll, who was on the witness stand for three days, described in painstaking detail for the jury of six men and three women how she had run into Mr. Trump as she was leaving the department store. Mr. Tacopina used his cross-examination not only to ask Ms. Carroll about what she said happened, but to question her about what she did afterward. He repeatedly asked her why she hadn’t screamed and why she had called a friend instead of going to the police.

☆ 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.

☆ 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.

☆ Trump's lawyer is asking for a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll rape case because he thinks the judge hasn't been fair to him
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina has requested a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll rape case. The request accused the court of acting in "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings." Tacopina said the court has "mischaracterized" evidence in favor of Carroll. Tacopina's request alleges that the court has "bolstered the testimony" of Carroll and allowed her to avoid clarifying information about surveillance cameras. Tacopina's request for a mistrial comes during ongoing testimony from Carroll in her civil trial against Trump, which is happening in Manhattan federal court.

☆ Last time Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina called a rape accuser greedy and crazy he won. It's a different world now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

By the time he won an acquittal in a high-profile, 2011 Manhattan criminal trial, Tacopina had attacked what he called her "functional tolerance" for alcohol. She remembered in graphic detail being immobilized in her bed — too drunk to resist — as she was allegedly raped, she told jurors. "She called him a rapist," Tacopina told the jury in openings Monday. "I can dance backwards and forwards in four-inch heels," she told Tacopina when he questioned her dressing-room balancing act. "It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work," she told Tacopina of the courage she saw in that #MeToo wave.

☆ E. Jean Carroll and the Persistent Misperception That a Rape Victim Should Scream - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“We have been up and down the mountain on the question of whether she went to the police,” he said.) Mr. Trump does not face jail. Ms. Carroll is seeking monetary damages and for Trump to retract the statements she believes were defamatory. This is one of more than a dozen sexual misconduct accusations against Mr. Trump, but the first one to be considered in a courtroom. That crime took place in a brothel, where Mr. Bedlow carried the woman by force, and which happens to be a few blocks away from the federal courthouse where Ms. Carroll is testifying.

☆ Trump asks for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll rape defamation trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Author E. Jean Carroll arrives to federal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The trial of a civil suit by Carroll, who claims Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, is set to start today. Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil rape and defamation case, accusing the judge of making "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings" against him. The request came after Carroll said Trump "raped me" and "shattered my reputation" over two days of testimony in the trial, which began last week. Before Carroll first began testifying last Wednesday, Kaplan warned Trump's lawyer about the former president's posts.

☆ Trump asks for mistrial in battery case, saying judge has made ‘unfair and prejudicial’ rulings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump has asked the judge to declare a mistrial in his civil battery and defamation trial, arguing the judge has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against him. Carroll sued Trump, alleging he raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim, said she wasn’t his type and suggested she made up the story to boost sales of her book. Carroll will be on the stand Monday for a second day of cross-examination by Tacopina. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. It would be unusual for the judge to declare a mistrial based on his own statements during a trial.

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.

☆ 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.

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