2023-04-26 22:20:37
«I’m here because Donald Trump raped me“, sentenced the writer and ex-journalist E. Jean Carroll. The statements occurred in the midst of a civil trial in New York in which he sues the former US president. compensation for damages.
On the second day of her trial in Manhattan Federal Court, the 79-year-old former columnist for Elle magazine spoke calmly but gravely to nine anonymous jurors. Six men and three women will be in charge of determining whether the alleged facts, which the former president denies, are capable of repair.
«I’m here to get my life backCarroll added.
The writer alleges that the Republican magnate, in the middle of the race to reach the White House again in the 2024 elections, he sexually assaulted her in a changing room of a luxury department store on Fifth Avenue in New Yorkin the mid-1990s.
When Carroll wrote about it in a book published in 2019, the then-president (2017-2021) said it hadn’t happened. «Lied and shattered my reputation“, held.
Trump was not present on the first two days of the trial and in principle he is not expected in this media process that can last between one and two weeks. On Tuesday, Joe Tacopina, one of the magnate’s defense attorneys, said that the former journalist “He abuses the system for money, for political reasons and for status.”
Complaint by a former journalist against Donald Trump: how the events happened
For more than an hour, the writer recounted a “funny New York scene”: the chance meeting with the tycoon at the entrance to the department store. But the jokes in the women’s lingerie section on the sixth floor they turned into a nightmare in the fitting room.
According to her account, the then businessman and celebrity in New York, now 76 years old, recognized her because she wrote a column in Elle magazine, “Ask E. Jean” (ask E. Jean), and invited her in friendly tone to help you choose a gift.
the tone was “very funny”. In the lingerie section, Trump chose a ‘body’. Carroll still cannot explain, more than 25 years later, how he was able to follow the tester, despite the fact that “comedy was escalating”.
“He pushed me against the wall. I kept laughing, I wasn’t sure. I didn’t want to make a scene,” but immediately afterwards he “inserted” his fingers into her vagina and then his penis.
It all lasted “a very few minutes,” he said. «It prevented me from having a love life again“, he confessed.
The journalist did not tell it until more than two decades later because “she was afraid of Donald Trump” and “ashamed.” «I thought it was my fault“, said.
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