Former President Trump faces a lawsuit for rape allegations and defamation.

According to press reports, the process initiated the day before against the former president (2017-2021) responds to the demand of former columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claims that she was raped by Trump in the changing room of a luxury department store in Manhattan in the spring of 1996.

Carroll said the New York tycoon defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations, and with the current lawsuit she is seeking monetary damages and a retraction of an October 2022 statement he made about her on social media.

“And even though I’m not supposed to say it, I will. This woman (Carroll) is not my type,” Trump wrote, pointing out at the time on Truth Social that the impeachment was “a hoax” and a “complete scam.”

In addition to the alleged victim, two other women will give their testimony at the trial to demonstrate the pattern of alleged violent conduct on the part of the former ruler, Shawn Crowley, Carroll’s lawyer, warned the day before.

«To launch, to kiss, to grab, to grope, not to wait. When you’re a celebrity you can do whatever you want. And when they talk about what happened, attack them, humiliate them, call them liars. Calling them too ugly to attack them, ”she maintained, reported CNN.

But Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, said in his opening statement that Carroll conspired with Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff against his client because they hate him politically.

In any case, the process, which would not land him in jail, is part of the multiple legal issues that the main candidate for the Republican nomination for the upcoming 2024 elections is going through.

Even the former president boasted that he will not abandon his campaign for any legal reason after an unprecedented event occurred on April 4 in a courthouse in Manhattan.

That day he was charged with 34 felonies in connection with buying the silence of adult film actress Stormy Daniels with whom he may have had an extramarital affair, a story that surfaced during his 2016 presidential campaign.

They are also investigating the former Oval Office occupant for trying to reverse his 2020 election loss in the southern state of Georgia; for his alleged mishandling of classified documents extracted from the White House and his role in the instigation that led to the assault on the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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