Jurors are expected to hear lawyers’ closing statements Monday in a civil lawsuit brought by author E. Jean Carroll against former president Donald Trump, who she says raped her in the mid-1990s.
has put on display Carroll’s account of lasting trauma and delved into an alleged assault that she says is still fresh in her mind many years later. Though presenting herself outwardly as resilient in public and among friends and family, Carroll told jurors that she has come to realize she has permanent scars.
Former president Donald Trump in a deposition for E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against him mistook Carroll, who accused him of rape, for his ex-wife Marla Maples. His attorneys did not call witnesses to testify — instead opting to put on a case through cross-examination of Carroll and others who did testify. Trump and his lawyers have repeatedly said the story was made up by Carroll and a pair of her friends.Because the case is civil, not criminal, Trump does not face any time behind bars if the nine-member jury sides with Carroll, who has sought unspecified damages.
In court, Carroll described in explicit detail the assault she said occurred in a lingerie-floor dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue. Carroll, who had a TV show and a popular advice column around that time, told jurors she had a chance encounter with Trump, who was a real estate developer with celebrity status in New York.
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