“I am here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and destroyed my reputation, and I have come here to try to get my life back,” E. Jean Carroll told a New York jury.
The 79-year-old journalist testified that she passed Trump at the revolving door of the Bergdorf Goodman store on an unspecified date during the spring of 1996. At the time, she was writing an advice column for the magazine elle and he was a scriptwriter for the show Saturday night Live. you
At first, Carroll thought that helping him shop for women’s underwear at a high-end store would simply be a “funny incident in New York.”
When Trump invited her into the fitting room, E. Jean Carroll imagined it would be something similar to a script she had written for his show. But within minutes, “my only reason for being alive was to get out of that room,” she declared.
Trump has reiterated that Carroll’s complaint is a total fiction. “A made-up fake,” he said. “It’s a fraudulent & false story: Witch Hunt!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Given these statements, the judge warned the lawyers that they could cause more legal problems for Trump.
The defendant has not attended the trial so far, but his lawyers said he could appear to testify.
