In federal court in Manhattan on Monday, E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Donald J. Trump of raping her, was subjected to more cross-examination.
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Monday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit, in which she claims that Donald J. Trump raped her in a department store changing room, will resume.
It was anticipated that the case against the former president, who has denied all wrongdoing, would take one to two weeks when it started last Tuesday. In a failed attempt to have the case dismissed, Mr. Trump's attorneys claimed that the court had rendered "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings."
The Accusation
The mid-1990s saw Ms. Carroll visiting Bergdorf Goodman, a department store where she frequently shopped. Ms. Carroll was a former advice writer for Elle magazine.
She was exiting the building by a rotating side door on 58th Street when Mr. Trump allegedly came through the same entrance, recognized her, and convinced her to go shopping with him for a gift for a female friend.
She claims that the former president continued to assault her in a lingerie shop changing room.
In the Courtroom
A week ago, Mr. Trump's attorney Joseph Tacopina spent time asking Ms. Carroll about the specifics of what she claims transpired in the dressing room. On Monday, the focus of his cross-examination shifted to what she ultimately chose to do.
Although the atmosphere wasn't as tense as it was the previous week, there were still times when the back-and-forth questioning made people frustrated.
Mr. Tacopina questioned Ms. Carroll as to why she did not contact the police following the alleged attack and why she did so after kids damaged a mailbox belonging to an actress she knew. He questioned her on whether she would "call the police if a mailbox was attacked," but not when she claimed that Mr. Trump had "personally attacked" her.
Listen, I was embarrassed by what occurred, Ms. Carroll said in court. I believed it was my fault.
People who have been sexually assaulted frequently do not report the incident right away, and those who are reporting a powerful person face additional difficulties in coming forward. According to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, only 310 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to the authorities.
Mr. Tacopina also inquired about Ms. Carroll's opinion of Mr. Trump as a politician and the rationale for her decision to file a lawsuit against him. And he questioned her about why she hadn't taken legal action against Les Moonves, the former CEO of CBS, whom she had also accused of sexual assault in her 2019 autobiography; Mr. Moonves vigorously disputes the claims.
"He didn't call me names," Ms. Carroll claimed. "Unlike Donald Trump, he didn't grind my face into the mud."
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Motion on Monday morning
Mr. Tacopina requested that Judge Lewis A. Kaplan declare a mistrial in a motion, but the judge rejected the request.
Mr. Tacopina had criticized the judge for, among other things, misrepresenting evidence to favor Ms. Carroll and improperly bolstering her testimony; allowing her to note that Mr. Trump had two tables' worth of solicitors while forbidding the defense from mentioning she had a comparable number; and incorrectly upholding "argumentative" objections to his questions.
The cumulative effect of the court's one-sided decisions, according to Mr. Tacopina, "reaches a point where its one-sided rulings manifest a deeper lean towards one party or another," even when the defendant acknowledges that the court has discretion over evidentiary concerns.
Brutal Testimony
Ms. Carroll has been the major witness ever since the attorneys' opening remarks last week. She gave a vivid account of her experience.
I'm here because Donald Trump sexually assaulted me and then denied it when I blogged about it, according to Ms. Carroll. I'm here to attempt to regain my life after he lied and destroyed everything.
Within a day after the incident, according to Ms. Carroll's testimony, she notified two friends about her experience. One of them advised her to call the police since she had been raped. She was warned by a second person not to tell anyone because Mr. Trump was strong and had a group of attorneys who would execute her.
What Ms. Carroll Seeks
According to a new state statute in New York, which gives adult sexual abuse victims a year to file civil claims against those they claim are responsible for the abuse, Ms. Carroll filed suit against Mr. Trump in November.
Because she and Mr. Trump reside in different states, she filed her lawsuit in federal court. She is requesting that a jury find Mr. Trump accountable for battery and defamation, force him to retract comments that called into question her sincerity, and grant her monetary damages.
