NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Donald Trump will not testify in his own defense in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation and battery case against the former president, Trump's attorney said Tuesday at the end of the day's testimony.
Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations"a Hoax and a lie" and saying"This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the 1990s.
During Tuesday's testimony, a businesswoman told jurors that Trump had groped her during a flight to New York in 1979, in what Carroll's attorneys said showed a pattern of behavior on Trump's part. Jessica Leeds is one of two women who the court has ruled are allowed to testify about prior alleged assaults by Trump.
"It never occurred to me to yell out," Leeds said. When asked"Why not?" by Carroll's attorney, she said,"I don't know." "I started off telling my family, telling my children, telling my friends, my neighbors, my book club, anyone and everyone who would listen to me," Leeds said."I thought he was not the kind of person we wanted as president."
Leeds testified that she could not recall the exact date of the alleged assault, could not recall the origin of her LaGuardia-bound flight, and did not know who Trump was at the time, describing him as"some random guy sitting next to me on the airplane." Birnbach testified that she"thought it was kind of nutty" for Carroll to go to the lingerie department with Trump, but she did not think it was dangerous.
"As soon as she said that, even though I knew my children didn't know the word, I ducked out of the room and I whispered 'E. Jean, he raped you, you should go to the police,'" Birnbach testified. "And even when Lisa said it, it took a real effort for me to take it in," Carroll testified."Lisa is the one who focused my brain for that moment. It was Lisa saying that."
Birnbach told the jury that she supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, was"surprised and upset" Trump won, and, on her podcast, called Trump a"narcissistic sociopath" who is"an infection like herpes that we can't get rid of." "Donald Trump in 1996 was a well-known New York person," Birnbach said."He was not in politics. He was not near politics. He was a guy who liked publicity and attention and he was also a known womanizer. My friend wasn't raped by a president. She was assaulted by a guy, a real estate guy.""Never," Birnbach replied.Dr. Leslie Lebowitz, a clinical psychologist, testified that she had concluded that Carroll had been harmed by Trump's alleged assault.
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