A civil trial in New York against Donald Trump accused of rape and defamation by a former journalist ended on Monday, with lawyers exchanging arms as they denounced the former president’s maneuver.
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After the last appeal of the two camps, long and quarrelsome, billionaire E. A nine-citizen jury is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to award Jean Carroll compensation.
She alleged that Beckdorf Goodman sexually assaulted her in the fitting room of a luxury department store in New York in the spring of 1996, and later accused her of defamation after making the first allegations in a book in 2019.
The magazine’s former columnist’s lawyer opened his plea by saying, “No one, not even a former president, is above the law.” sheRoberta Kaplan, before the six men and three women who make up the jury.
“They want you to hate him enough to ignore the facts,” responded at 2:30 a.m. Donald Trump’s adviser Joe Tacobina, again accusing the complainant of inventing the story.
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Donald Trump never appeared in federal court in Manhattan during the two-week trial, and the jury had to content himself with a video of his testimony on Thursday, 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.
The 79-year-old plaintiff was able to file suit under New York state law, which allows victims of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits even if criminal ones are barred.
25 years ago Donald Trump and E. Although there were no witnesses who saw Jean Carroll in the closet – which, according to the complainant, was deserted – two close friends of the journalist soon confirmed what he had 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 M.e Kaplan followed the same “modus operandi” each time, as he described in a video that has since become famous, where we hear him bragging about kissing and touching as he pleases in 2005.
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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. Inspired by an old episode of the Jean Carroll detective series New York, Special DivisionBased on the rape of Bergdorf Goodman.
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 ruining his reputation.
Her attorney recalled that she testified “over two days, answering every question,” specifically “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 matters, a conviction would add to the former president’s legal woes as he bids for the White House again in 2024.
In early April, in an unprecedented move for a former US president, he was indicted in New York on 34 counts of accounting and tax fraud to cover up embarrassing business dealings before the 2016 presidential election.
