Donald Trump didn’t present up at a civil rape trial in opposition to him as a result of “he knows what he did” to the lady accusing him of allegedly raping her, a jury heard in closing remarks.
Lawyers for author E Jean Carroll, who’s suing the previous president, stated Mr Trump “didn’t even bother to show up in person” to the civil trial in New York and known as him a “witness against himself”.
Ms Carroll, 79, claims that Mr Trump raped her in a division retailer altering room in Manhattan within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, after which tarred her popularity by mendacity about it on-line – which he denies.
She is searching for compensatory and punitive damages.
During the trial, Ms Carroll testified and informed jurors Mr Trump “shattered” her popularity and he or she was there “to try and get my life back”.
Mr Trump’s lawyer insists Ms Carroll has “abused the system” for “money, status and political reasons” and stated her incapability to recall the date of the alleged incident made it unimaginable for Mr Trump to defend himself.
In closing remarks within the third week, Ms Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan performed jurors a portion of the Access Hollywood video from 2005, the place Mr Trump stated right into a scorching mic that celebrities may seize girls’s genitals with out asking.
Ms Kaplan recalled Mr Trump’s remark that “stars like him can get away with sexually assaulting women”.
She stated: “That’s who Donald Trump is. That is how he thinks. And that’s what he does.”
She informed jurors that a lot of what he stated in his deposition and in public statements “actually supports our side of the case”, including that he’s “a witness against himself”.
“He knows what he did. He knows that he sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll,” Ms Kaplan stated.
In the trial, jurors had been additionally proven a deposition of Mr Trump complicated Ms Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in {a photograph} – which Ms Carroll’s attorneys say undermines the previous president’s argument that she was not his sort.
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Mr Trump has stated he couldn’t have raped Ms Carroll, as a result of “she’s not my type” and known as the case politically motivated.
The former president waived his proper to testify at trial and opted to not current a defence, playing that jurors will discover Ms Carroll had didn’t make a persuasive case.
During closing arguments, Mr Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina, stated Ms Carroll has “abused this system”.
He stated: “She has abused this system by bringing a false claim for, amongst other things, money, status, political reasons.
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“With no date, no month, no yr, you’ll be able to’t current an alibi, you’ll be able to’t name witnesses.
“What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts.”
Since Ms Carroll first made her accusations in a 2019 memoir, Mr Trump, 76, has denied {that a} rape ever occurred or that he even knew Ms Carroll.
Ms Carroll claimed after operating into Mr Trump at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman, they teased each other to strive on a bit of lingerie.
She alleged they ended up alone collectively in a altering room, the place Mr Trump pushed her in opposition to a wall and raped her earlier than she fought him off and fled.
Judge Lewis A Kaplan, who’s unrelated to Ms Kaplan, informed jurors they’d start deliberations on Tuesday.
Source: information.sky.com”
