By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — {A magazine} columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in a division retailer’s dressing room twenty years earlier than he turned president acknowledged Monday that she by no means adopted her personal recommendation to readers that they report sexual assaults to police.
E. Jean Carroll informed a Manhattan federal courtroom jury that she was born in 1943 and was a “member of the silent generation,” taught “to keep our chins up and to not complain.” She mentioned she had solely referred to as police as soon as in her life, when she feared the mailbox at a house the place she was staying was going to be broken on Halloween.
Carroll described her angle about going to the police as Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, confronted her throughout cross-examination with cases through which she suggested these studying her Elle journal column to contact police or name a intercourse crimes hotline in the event that they have been attacked.
“The fact that I never went to the police is not surprising for somebody my age,” she mentioned. “We were not trained to call the police, ever.”
Carroll, testifying for a 3rd day within the civil trial stemming from her November lawsuit, has mentioned Trump raped her within the spring of 1996 at a luxurious midtown Manhattan division retailer after they went right into a dressing room collectively in an encounter that she mentioned was enjoyable and flirtatious till Trump turned violent. She mentioned she finally kneed him and fled.
Trump, 76, has lengthy denied {that a} rape occurred, that he was on the retailer with Carroll or that he even knew her past fleeting moments when photos have been taken of them in group settings in different years. He has not attended the trial, which is predicted to final by the week.
Carroll’s renewed testimony got here shortly after Tacopina requested Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who’s overseeing the civil proceedings in federal courtroom, to declare a mistrial due to rulings he made that Tacopina mentioned favored Carroll.
Tacopina mentioned if a mistrial was not granted, then Kaplan’s “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” ought to appropriate the report for any rulings that will have mischaracterized the proof or allow Tacopina extra latitude in questioning Carroll.
The decide appeared to reject the request earlier than testimony resumed Monday, asking Tacopina if the movement he discovered on his desk within the morning had been filed.
“It is now denied. Ok, get the jury,” Kaplan mentioned.
Carroll filed a lawsuit towards Trump below a New York state regulation letting sexual assault victims quickly sue others for assaults that occurred even many years in the past.
Amid a flurry of public denials and insults from Trump that prompted Carroll so as to add a defamation declare to the lawsuit, Trump has insisted that Carroll was motivated by political causes and a need to promote copies of the 2019 memoir the place she first publicly revealed her rape claims whereas Trump was nonetheless president.
Carroll has testified that she would have stored her accusation secret without end if not for the #MeToo motion, which gained prominence in 2017.
During testimony on Thursday, Carroll grew pissed off as Tacopina pressed her on how she claims she reacted to an assault from his shopper.
“You can’t beat up on me because I didn’t scream,” Carroll forcefully informed Tacopina. She had defined in earlier testimony that she was “not a screamer — I’m a fighter.”
She mentioned if she have been mendacity concerning the assault, she would’ve informed individuals she had screamed as a result of “more people would have believed me.”
But, she emphasised, “I don’t need an excuse for not screaming.”
In his mistrial request Monday, Tacopina complained that Kaplan shut down his questioning when he pushed Carroll to clarify why she didn’t scream, why she didn’t inform police or try afterward to retrieve footage from video cameras on the retailer’s doorways to show that she and Trump have been there collectively.
The Associated Press sometimes doesn’t identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted except they arrive ahead publicly, as Carroll has finished.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”