Notorious 'Access Hollywood' tape to be shown at Trump's defamation trial damages phase next week

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Notorious ‘Access Hollywood’ tape to be shown at Trump’s defamation trial damages phase next week

BY LARRY NEUMEISTER
Updated 7:15 PM EST, January 9, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he sexually abused and then defamed, a judge ruled Tuesday, setting ground rules for a trial next week.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in a written order narrowed what lawyers can introduce at the trial beginning Jan. 16, but he allowed the video to be shown. The video was seen by a jury that in May concluded that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store in 1996 and defamed her in 2022. It awarded $5 million in damages.

In the tape, Trump was heard bragging about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. In a statement after the tape emerged shortly before the November 2016 presidential election, Trump dismissed it as “locker room banter” and “a private conversation.”

Kaplan wrote that a jury could find the “Access Hollywood” video to be useful insight into Trump’s state of mind regarding how he viewed Carroll specifically, given the similarity between the behavior he described on the video and Carroll’s sexual assault claim.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-lawsuit-defamation-trial-f3b0fdec4f331e21e091bcaae6a5801c

[TSExile]

1. They were talking about this on MSNBC last night.

One of the legal analysts - it was either Joyce Vance or Lisa Rubin - said they thought the use of the tape could backfire for the plaintiff. Did anyone else see this?

As sick as hearing those words from that infamous tape will be, I hope this time they bring about a better result...and that they translate to the ballot box. Please!! 🙏

[gab13by13]

4. I saw it

Kaplan being allowed to show the tape doesn’t mean she will.

[Beachnutt]

2. This video ?

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[TSExile]

3. That's the one.

I still wonder if it would have made a difference had it been leaked much earlier in the campaign. Hopefully, it will help bury his current campaign. 🙏

[localroger]

7. It was leaked early enough that it would have ruined any other candidate's chances

The problem is that Trump's base likes that he is a successful sexual predator. They think that indicates strength.

[pfitz59]

5. This should be run 24/7

with overlays of Faux females lauding his virility.

[TSExile]

6. ...and him bragging about overturning Roe.

I am amazed that more women don't have visceral reactions to that...that...creature.

[localroger]

8. This is one of the things that will really kill him on election day

As well as the rest of the Republican party. Pussy grabbing might be seen as the good clean fun of a strong man expressing himself, but when it's you or your wife or daughter who is suddenly needing a pregnancy termination it's not fun any more. Screw the "predictive" polls by people who can't find a representative sample any more; every actual election since Dobbs has seen the Democrat gain 6 to 8 points over the last similar election in that venue. Even in places where the D still lost because it is sooooo red. If that holds universally in 2024, the R's are toast for the Presidency and control of both houses of Congress. A few of them are starting to realize and bleat about it to their peers, but the rabid base doesn't want to hear about it. They like the cruelty and don't care that the people they want to be cruel to can vote.