“Former President Trump Accused of Rape and Smearing Victim in New York Civil Lawsuit”

David Brooks y Jim Cason

correspondents

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday April 26, 2023, p. 24

New York and Washington. Donald Trump brutally raped a woman in the 1990s and then smeared her victim when he dared to speak out, a jury heard on the first day of a New York civil lawsuit against the former president.

According to the narrative presented to the jury by the plaintiff’s lawyer, the writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll, everything happened in the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, on Fifth Avenue, in 1996, when Trump began to speak with the victim. , whom he asked for help in selecting a gift for a woman. When they went up to the sixth floor, they began to see intimate clothing and joking among themselves, they approached the dressing rooms where “everything changed … Trump threw Carroll against a wall, put his lips against hers … he pulled down her stockings and then assaulted her sexually,” said the lawyer, narrating the rape in great detail, as reported by the New York Daily News.

not my type

The woman escaped and ran out of the store on Fifth Avenue. Decades later, in 2019, when Carroll decided to denounce what happened, Trump tried destroy and humiliate hercalling her a liar. Trump even indicated that his story could not be true, since she was not my typehinting that she was not attractive.

Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, in his opening remarks, said that the former president He calls her a liar because it’s the truth; that her client never raped her, she accused that Carroll and her friends – who they hated to Trump – had used the false accusation to promote a book and that they sought to politically damage the tycoon.

Carroll, who intends to testify in this trial, arrived early at court in Manhattan, while Trump’s lawyer, responding to a question from the judge, said he did not know if his client will appear at trial or not; he is not bound, as it is a civil suit and not a criminal proceeding.

The judge instructed the jury, made up of six men and three women, that their task is to determine what happened in that department store, whether or not the plaintiff was sexually assaulted and whether she should be compensated.

He also informed them that their identities were being kept anonymous to protect them as much as possible, given Trump’s previous statements in other cases that could incite violence and riots.

This lawsuit surrounding the civil lawsuit is just one legal case of several facing the former president. The criminal trial will also proceed in New York against him for allegedly violating the law by concealing the purpose of payments to silence a former porn star and another regarding a lawsuit by the New York State Attorney General for fraud. in their businesses.

In Georgia, the Fulton County (Atlanta) prosecutor reported that if there are formal criminal charges against the former president for attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, they will be announced between July and September, and warned security forces public that your ad could provoke a significant public reaction.

Two federal investigations by a special prosecutor are proceeding, both with the potential for criminal charges: one for the illegal handling of classified official documents and another surrounding his role in the storming of the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021, which was part of an attempted coup.