Donald Trump has always rejected these accusations. She claims to have been assaulted in a dressing room in the 1990s.
Involved in numerous legal cases, Donald Trump is the target of a civil lawsuit in New York. E. Jean Carroll, an author and former American columnist, accuses the former President of the United States of rape in 1996. On Wednesday April 26, on the second day of the hearing, she testified before the nine members of the jury: “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me”she said.
E. Jean Carroll first testified in a book in 2019, an account she reiterated on Wednesday. She says she accidentally ran into Donald Trump at the entrance to a New York department store, who recognized her because she was writing an advice column in the magazine at the time. She.
According to her, their discussion took them to the lingerie department, the businessman explaining that he was looking for a gift for another woman. E. Jean Carroll then says that she followed him into a cabin, where she claims that he pushed her against the wall, pinned her down, then lowered her pantyhose and penetrated her with “his fingers in [son] vagina”then its gender.
Trump should not testify
“I was afraid of Donald Trump (…) I was ashamed (…) I thought it was my fault”she explained to the nine members of the jury to justify not having publicly told this rape for more than 20 years – two of her friends must testify at the bar that she had told them the story at the time . “When I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and ruined my reputation. (…) I’m here to take back the course of my life”she explained.
She filed a complaint for “defamation” but also “assault” and “assault”, under a law of the State of New York allowing for one year to launch a legal action for facts prescribed criminally.
Donald Trump, launched in his campaign for the presidential election of 2024, has no obligation to come and testify. During a testimony during the procedure, he had denied the facts: “First she’s not my type; then it never happened”.