Jury selection is scheduled to begin in a civil lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who has accused former president Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s. The trial comes at a time of dizzying legal and investigative scrutiny surrounding Trump.
, this one accusing Trump of battery and then defaming her with his continued denials after he lost the 2020 presidential election. This suit was brought under a new law in New York allowing sexual assault victims to sue years later.asks for damages “in an amount to be determined at trial,” along with a court order directing Trump to retract a “defamatory statement” he made criticizing her last year.
Carroll’s lawsuit points to a statement Trump posted to social media in October 2022, saying he did not know her and has “no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event.
Trump was deposed last year in the case, during which he was shown a photograph of Carroll and mistook it for an image of
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