Opening statements conclude in Trump's trial over E. Jean Carroll's rape allegation

[BeckyDem]

April 25, 2023, 5:00 AM EDT / Updated April 25, 2023, 6:24 PM EDT

By Dareh Gregorian and Adam Reiss

E. Jean Carroll, the writer who says Donald Trump raped her in a New York City Department store in the 1990s, filed a civil suit against the former president because "she wants to get her life back," her attorney said in opening statements Tuesday.

"Donald Trump assaulted her in 1996 and defamed her when she said she made it up," lawyer Shawn Crowley told jurors.

Carroll, a magazine writer and columnist, alleges the attack took place in a Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, when the "playful banter" she'd been engaged with the businessman took a "dark turn." She alleges in her lawsuit that Trump "seized" her, "forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and raped her."

Crowley told the jury that the pair had met before, and Trump asked her for help picking out some lingerie after bumping into her at the entrance of the store. They had "moved through the store laughing and joking" before "everything changed," she said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-e-jean-carroll-trial-begins-alleged-rape-rcna80049



( I hope Jean knows she is brave, especially knowing the scope of his violent fan base. Trump is a violent man, her description is one of a raging rapist. )

[Walleye]

1. Courageous woman versus cowardly man child

[MLAA]

2. +1

[BeckyDem]

3. Exactly.

Shameful he has never seen the inside of a prison cell.

[Walleye]

4. Shameful all the people that voted for him after hearing the access Hollywood tape

[BeckyDem]

5. So true. Far too many women in the Republican Party are in no way supportive of

women's rights. I recall very few voices among conservative women writing OP's that Trump must be abandoned.

[Walleye]

6. If women were united together they would never be able to pull this shit on us