UNITED STATES: A New York jury was informed on Tuesday by erstwhile President Donald Trump that E. Jean Carroll had gotten in touch with other women to plot against him and accuse him of rape as they were all unhappy at Trump’s presidential election win in 2016.
Carroll is accusing Donald Trump of battery and defamation on the opening day of a civil trial in a federal court in Manhattan in order to “clear her name, to pursue justice, and to get her life back” following the alleged rape committed by Trump on her in a department store, Bergdorf Goodman, in New York in 1996 and disregarding it after years.
Her lawyer, Shawn Crowley, stated that Donald Trump asked her to follow him to the dressing room and then ruthlessly assaulted her despite Carroll trying to knee him off, but she was overwhelmed by the situation.
Crowley mentioned, “To her, the situation was harmless and funny,” adding, “The truth is she didn’t see Trump as a threat.” Crowley also added that, for years, Carroll had blamed herself for what had happened.
During the deposition, Carroll’s lawyer mentioned that Donald Trump was shown a picture of himself with Carroll in the 1980s, and he thought the woman was not Carroll but his second wife, Marla Maples.
The jury of three women and six men was informed by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, that the motif underlying Carroll’s intentions was solely getting the political upper hand in order to sell and publish and to seek attention from the public. He said, “They schemed to hurt Donald Trump politically.”
Tacopina said that Carroll, after meeting the vocal critic George Conway, convicted the former president of rape. An objection was upheld to the claim by Carroll’s lawyers to the judge.
Tacopina mocked and totally disregarded Carroll’s accounts and said, “You learn that E. Jean Carroll can’t tell you the date she claims to have been raped. She can’t tell you the month she claims to have been raped. She can’t tell you the season. She can’t even tell you the year.”
The jury of three women and six men was chosen from a group of 100 in order to momentarily ignore political beliefs and rely on the #MeToo movement to establish truths.
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