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Donald Trump has to answer again before a New York court. What the former US President is accused of this time.
Donald Trump is in court again. In New York again. After the indictment for hush money payments to a former porn star and an ex-Playboy model, which were declared unclean for tax purposes, the ex-US President has to face charges of rape responsible.
More precisely: For allegedly slandering his alleged victim, columnist E. Jean Carroll, as a liar when the now 79-year-old told the story of her eerie encounter with Trump in late 1995/early 1996 in a Changing room of the Bergdorf-Goodman fashion store in New York City. There, the entrepreneur is said to have pressed Carroll against the wall and sexually abused him.
Donald Trump: Civil proceedings can end with a fine
The author states that she still owns the coat she wore at the time, on which DNA traces found by Trump. However, Trump did not agree to a comparison of his genetic fingerprint. Trump vigorously denies the act. Carroll seeks publicity. In addition, he is not his type, said the man, who once explained on a tape recording that celebrities like him could grab women between the legs with impunity.
All attempts to appease the process have failed. Judge Lewis Kaplan wants it that way. In the civil procedure, only with a fine can end, it is formally about defamation. The rape itself will be dealt with separately in a procedure that has not yet been scheduled.
Because coming to New York would cause huge security and logistical problems, says Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina, the 76-year-old presumably wants to stay away from the process in whole or in part. Curious: two days after process start Republican candidate for the 2024 election holds a public rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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In the process, Judge Kaplan uses an unusual means. The identity of the jury remains classified. For fear of reprisals from Trump supporters. They had already made death threats against the chief prosecutor in the hush money case, Alvin Bragg.
Two women will testify for Carroll, to whom the journalist is said to have revealed herself after meeting Trump. Among other things, with the detail that Trump at the time Women’s underwear bought for an unknown woman. When he met Carroll in the store, he asked her to try on the underwear. Carroll jokingly replied, “You put it on.”
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The author first made the rape public in a book in the summer of 2019. In the process, the lawyers Trumps attempt to discredit Carroll’s seriousness with one facet: she cannot name the exact day on which she is said to have fallen into Trump’s hands.
Nevertheless, legal experts in Washington assume that Trump’s lawyers in the course of the process cash payment will offer. Before unpleasant details are spread in the media. This includes allegations by Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, who also claim to have been sexually abused by Trump. Both are admitted as witnesses.
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