Just weeks after former President Donald Trump became the first former president to face criminal charges, a jury in New York will decide whether he's guilty of defaming a woman when he denied her sexual assault allegations.
The civil trial is slated to begin April 25 in one of former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll's pair of lawsuits against the former president over his denials that he raped her in the 1990s.Carroll, 79, could be owed damages by the former president if she can convince a full slate of jurors that he more likely than not defamed her in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform.
While Trump's other legal woes surround allegations of financial fraud and falsifying business records, Carroll's case focuses on allegations of sexual violence. She sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, five months after he first denied her rape claims. Trump has argued he was legally immune from Carroll's first lawsuit because he spoke in his capacity as president.
Carroll is expected to testify, as well as two friends she claimed she spoke to soon after the alleged rape. Those women include Lisa Birnbach, who wrote The Official Preppy Handbook, and former New York news anchor Carol Martin.
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