Global Courant 2023-05-01 22:19:59
A federal judge in New York on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
In a Archive of 18 pages hours prior to his second day of cross-examining Carroll, Trump attorney Joe Tacopina accused U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case, of making “piercingly unfair and prejudicial statements” against his client.
Barring a mistrial, Tacopina requested that Kaplan “correct the record for every instance in which the court misrepresented the facts of this case to the jury” and allow Trump’s counsel “to have more leeway” to cross-examine Carroll to subject.
Carroll took the stand for her trial against Trump last week and told jurors, “I’m here because Trump raped me.” Carroll claims that Trump assaulted her in 1995 or 1996 at a Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, when the “playful banter” she was engaged in with Trump, then a businessman, took a “dark turn.” She claims in her lawsuit that Trump “grabbed” her, “forced her against a locker room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and raped her.”
In her testimony at the civil trial in federal court in Lower Manhattan last week, Carroll said Trump “lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m trying to get my life back” after coming forward with her allegations in 2019.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s allegations, including in recent posts on his social media platform Truth Social during the trial.