Donald Trump “slammed” Carroll against a wall before raping her — and decades later tried to “destroy” her when she came forward, her lawyers claimed.
The former Elle magazine advice columnist will take the stand to describe the alleged 1996 sexual assault in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room, one of her attorneys, Shawn Crowley, told jurors during opening statements in Manhattan federal court.
Crowley told the jury how Carroll had allegedly bumped into the real estate mogul as she was leaving the Fifth Avenue department store, just across from Trump Tower, one evening in the spring of 1996. Carroll immediately called her friend with a cell phone to tell her what happened, and the pal told her to report it to the police — but a scared Carroll swore her to secrecy, Crowley said.
Carroll came out with her accusations against Trump in a book titled “What Do We Need Men For?” and in an excerpt of the tome published in New York Magazine in 2019.Trump’s lawyers claimed that Carroll made up her claims to make money and boost sales for her book.“He went on the attack seeking to destroy and humiliate her,” Crowley said. “He said none of it ever happened.
But after Trump’s denials, Carroll became the target of online vitriol and landed on national headlines. The lawyer went on to tell the jury that Carroll lied about the attack happening and that “she is abusing the system by falsifying a claim of rape for money, for political reason and for status.”
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