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Ladybbird · 04-10-22, 06:07

Confidence Man: Key Revelations From New Book on TRUMP

Former US President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter and routinely flushed documents down the toilet.

New York Times 4 OCT 2022.

Former US President Donald Trump has dismissed the book as "made up stories"

These explosive details and more are revealed in New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman's highly-anticipated book Confidence Man, which is released on Tuesday.

The book follows Mr Trump from his time as a New York businessman to his life after the presidency. It draws from interviews with more than 200 sources, including former aides as well as three interviews with Mr Trump himself.

The former president has attacked Haberman, writing on his social media platform that the book contains "many made up stories with zero fact checking".

Here are eight of Confidence Man's
biggest revelations:

1) Trump wanted to fire Ivanka and Jared Kushner

At a meeting with then-Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Haberman writes that Mr Trump was close to tweeting that his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner - both senior White House aides - were leaving their positions.

He was stopped by Mr Kelly, who advised him to speak with Ivanka and Mr Kushner first before sending the tweet. Mr Trump never spoke with them, and they both remained White House aides until the end of his presidency.

The book also reveals that Mr Trump frequently talked down on his son-in-law, and once commented that Mr Kushner "sounds like a child" after hearing a public speech he gave in 2017.

Mr Trump has denied ever wanting to fire Ivanka and her husband. "Pure fiction. Never even crossed my mind," he said.

2) Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico

Haberman writes that Mr Trump raised the prospect of bombing Mexican drug labs several times - a suggestion that stunned former-US Defence Secretary Mark Esper.

The idea stemmed from a conversation that Mr Trump had with Brett Giroir, a public health officer and an admiral with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Mr Giroir walked into the Oval Office wearing a dress uniform - as is customary for public health officers in the corps - and said to Mr Trump that facilities producing illegal drugs in Mexico should be handled by putting "a lead to target" to stop illicit substances from coming over the border.

Mistaking Mr Giroir for a military officer, Mr Trump then suggested bombing the drug facilities. In response, the White House asked Mr Giroir to stop wearing his uniform.

3) Trump was scared of dying from Covid-19

When Mr Trump fell ill with Covid-19 in October 2020, his condition at the White House was worsening and he was fearful of dying.

At one point, his deputy chief of staff, Tony Ornato, warned the president that if his health deteriorated further he would have to set in motion procedures to ensure the continuity of government.

This fear existed despite several attempts by Mr Trump to minimize the pandemic, as he worried the virus was negatively impacting his image and political motivations. Haberman writes that he asked aides around him to take off their masks, and that he advised then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo to not talk about the virus on TV.

"Don't make such a big deal out of this," Mr Trump said to Mr Cuomo, according to the book. "You're going to make it a problem."

4) Trump mentioned his property in UK PM meeting

Haberman's book details several encounters between Mr Trump and world leaders.

For instance, in his first meeting with then-UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Mr Trump spoke about abortion, saying "some people are pro-life, some people are pro-choice. Imagine if some animals with tattoos raped your daughter and she got pregnant?"

He then changed the subject in a conversation on Northern Ireland to discuss how to block an offshore wind project from being set up near his property.

5) Trump asked Giuliani to "do anything" to overturn 2020 election

When it became apparent that Mr Trump was losing the 2020 election to US President Joe Biden, he called former New York City mayor and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

"Okay, Rudy, you're in charge. Go wild, do anything you want. I don't care," Mr Trump said, after other lawyers refused to go as far as he has requested in his bid to overturn the election results.

"My lawyers are terrible," he said to Mr Giuliani, according to the book. He also frequently berated White House counsel Pat Cipollone.

The book reveals that at the time, Mr Trump was enamoured with conspiracy theories and sought out lawyers that his own advisers felt were deluded.

6) Trump came up with a taxes excuse on the fly

On a plane while campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump was asked by his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and his press secretary Hope Hicks to address his refusal to release his tax returns - an issue they saw as a problem for Mr Trump's White House bid.

Haberman writes that Mr Trump responded by leaning back before snapping to a sudden thought: "Well, you know my taxes are under audit, I always get audited," he said.

"So what I mean is, well I could just say, 'I'll release them when I'm no longer under audit. 'Cause I'll never not be under audit."

Since Richard Nixon, every US president has voluntarily released their tax returns. A 2020 New York Times investigation has since revealed that Mr Trump paid $750 (£662) in federal income taxes the year he became president.

7) Trump flushed documents down a White House toilet

When Mr Trump was in office, White House staff periodically discovered that the toilet was clogged with printed paper and believed he had flushed documents.

He also allegedly tore up documents, which contravenes the Presidential Records Act - a law that says documents created or received by a president are the property of the US government and are to be handled by the US National Archives once the presidency ends.

The details are revealed amid wider allegations of missing documents from Mr Trump's White House levelled by the National Archives. Mr Trump also faces a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for keeping government records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office.

8) Trump thought ethnic minority staffers were waiters

At a congressional meeting shortly after his 2017 inauguration, Haberman writes that Mr Trump turned to a racially diverse group of Democratic staffers and asked them to fetch canapes, mistaking them for waiters.

The book details that Mr Trump made the remarks to staffers for Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Haberman also documents a history of homophobic remarks allegedly uttered by Mr Trump.

Ladybbird · 20-10-22, 11:45

TRUMP Questioned Under Oath Over RAPE Accusers' Defamation Case

Former US President Donald Trump has answered questions under oath in a lawsuit brought against him by an advice columnist who says he raped her.

BBC News 20 OCT 2022.

The alleged assault is said to have taken place while Mr Trump was married to Marla Maples,,,,

Writer E Jean Carroll first detailed her allegation against Donald Trump in a 2019 article

E Jean Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Mr Trump denied the claim and said Ms Carroll was lying, prompting her to sue him for defamation.

Ms Carroll's attorney did not release details of the deposition, but said it took place on Wednesday.

A civil trial in the case is scheduled for 6 February.

"We're pleased that on behalf of our client, E Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump's deposition today," a spokesperson for law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink said.

"We are not able to comment further."

Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement: "As we have said all along, my client was pleased to set the record straight today.

"This case is nothing more than a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump."

It is unclear what Mr Trump said during the deposition, or whether he spoke in person or remotely. According to CNN, he participated from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

In a 2019 article for New York magazine, Ms Carroll - a longtime Elle advice columnist - said she had a chance encounter with Trump in late 1995 or early 1996 at the department store Bergdorf Goodman.

She said she was helping him pick out a gift and the two of them ended up in a dressing room, where she alleges that he raped her. She says she was 52 and he was around 50, and Mr Trump was married to Marla Maples.

At the time, Ms Carroll also said she told two friends about the incident. One advised her to go to the police, but the other warned her to keep quiet, saying: "Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He'll bury you."

Trump quickly dismissed the allegation, accusing Ms Carroll of lying to sell her book.

She then filed a defamation lawsuit against Mr Trump while he was US president, saying his comments had harmed her reputation.

Trump's lawyers tried to delay the deposition, but Judge Lewis A Kaplan of the federal court in Manhattan last week denied the request.

Trump had responded to that legal setback by taking to social media to say "this 'Ms Bergdorf Goodman' case is a complete con job".

More than a dozen women have previously made sexual misconduct allegations against Mr Trump, which he has denied.

Last month, Ms Carroll's lawyers said she intends to sue Mr Trump a second time under a new law that gives adult sexual assault victims a one-time opportunity to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations has expired.

She plans to file the new lawsuit on 24 November, her attorney said.

This is the latest in a string of legal challenges facing Mr Trump.

Among other cases, he is facing allegations of fraud by New York prosecutors, who filed a lawsuit against him in September, and is being investigated by the Department of Justice for removing allegedly classified government documents from the White House and storing them at Mar-a-Lago.

Ladybbird · 25-11-22, 08:54

TRUMP Sued For RAPE Allegations as New York Adult Survivors Act Takes Effect

Writer E Jean Carroll has sued Donald Trump in the US state of New York for allegedly raping her

TRUMP ALSO Sued For $250M Over Fraud Allegations..

Total Financial Fraud ... NY State Wants $250 Mil

Trump inflated his net worth by billions in order to get better loans, and now the state of NY is taking him to court over it ... seeking $250 million and penalties for his children too.

BBC News 25 NOV

Ms Carroll, is among the first to sue under the Adult Survivors Act, which came into effect on Thursday.

The state law allows a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in New York over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations...

The former president has denied the allegations against him.

Ms Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room 27 years ago.

The Adult Survivors Act allows victims to come forward if the sexual assault occurred when they were over the age of 18 and took place on a date that exceeds time limits that exists on most felonies.

It is modelled after the state's recent Child Abuse Act, which applied to victims who were abused as minors.

The Child Abuse Act, which came into effect in 2019, allowed a two-year period for victims to come forward. Around 11,000 lawsuits were filed in New York against churches, hospitals, schools, camps and other institutions under that law.

Ms Carroll has also sued former President Trump for defamation after he accused her of lying when she first made her allegations public in 2019. Mr Trump has called Ms Carroll's claims "fiction". A civil trial for that case is scheduled for 6 February.

In a statement, Ms Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the new lawsuit filed on Thursday is intended to hold Mr Trump accountable for the alleged assault.

Alina Habba, a lawyer for Mr Trump, told US media that, while she respects and admires individuals that come forward "this case is unfortunately an abuse of the purpose of this Act" and "runs the risk of delegitimising the credibility of actual victims".

Others are also planning to file lawsuits under the new law.

This includes a planned class action lawsuit against Robert Hadden, a former gynaecologist at hospitals tied to New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University, who has been accused by dozens of patients of sexual abuse.

Mr Hadden was convicted in 2016 on sex-related charges in state court, but has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of abusing female patients over two decades.

Advocates for survivors of sex abuse believe the legislation provides an opportunity for people to come forward who may not have done so previously due to trauma or fear of retaliation.

Several other states have also extended or temporarily eliminated their statues of limitation on sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo in 2018, including New Jersey, California, Arizona and Montana.

Ladybbird · 14-01-23, 21:31

Judge Calls TRUMPs’ Attempt to Dismiss E Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit Absurd

Trump claimed woman who accused him of sexual assault in a luxury department store said 'Rape Was Sexy' and 'indicated that she loved it'

Ruling made in second case brought against former president by writer who alleges he sexually assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman

BBC 14 JAN 2023

A judge on Friday rejected as “absurd” Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit from the writer E Jean Carroll, who alleges he raped her in a department store changing room in New York in the mid-1990s.

Donald Trump himself was not on trial and denied any knowledge of his executives evading taxes illegally.

Carroll has sued Trump for defamation, for remarks while denying her allegation including that she was not his “type”.

But the lawsuit which the New York judge, Lewis Kaplan, refused to dismiss on Friday was brought against the former president under the Adult Survivors Act, a new state law which gives adults a one-year window to sue alleged attackers even if statutes of limitations have expired.

In his ruling in Manhattan, Kaplan said there was no merit to Trump’s argument that Carroll’s claim must be dismissed because the law denied him due process under the state constitution.

The judge also said state law did not require Carroll, a former Elle columnist, to prove she suffered an economic loss from Trump’s comments, as Trump had argued.

Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said “we are disappointed with the court’s decision” and planned an immediate appeal.

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said “we are pleased though not surprised”.

Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996.

She first sued after Trump denied the accusation in June 2019, telling a reporter at the White House he did not know Carroll, who was “not my type”, and that she concocted the claim to sell a memoir.

The second lawsuit arose from an October 2022 social media post in which Trump called the rape claim a “hoax”, “lie”, “con job” and “complete scam”, and said “this can only happen to ‘Trump’!”

That lawsuit included a battery claim under the Adult Survivors Act.

Kaplan said Trump was “demonstrably incorrect” to claim the law was unconstitutional because lawmakers did not sufficiently explain why it was needed.

The judge said lawmakers passed the law to help sexual abuse victims who might have suppressed memories of their attacks, or like Carroll were deterred from suing out of fear.

“To suggest that the ASA violates the state due process clause because the legislature supposedly did not describe that injustice to the defendant’s entire satisfaction in a particular paragraph of a particular type of legislative document – itself a dubious premise – is absurd,” Kaplan wrote.

Trump is seeking another White House term in 2024.

He and Carroll are awaiting a decision from a Washington DC appeals court on whether, under local law, Trump should be immune from Carroll’s first lawsuit.

That suit would probably be dismissed if the court decided Trump spoke within his role as president, but continue if Trump spoke in his personal capacity, as Carroll argued.

Donald Trump once praised a Montana congressman who body-slammed a Guardian reporter. Musk, meanwhile, has described the Guardian, as “the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.” I’m not sure there is any greater compliment.

Ladybbird · 25-04-23, 06:35

TRUMP Faces Civil Trial For E Jean Carroll Rape Allegation

Judge Rejects TRUMPs’ Request to Delay Civil Rape Case -Jury Selection is Due to Begin on Tuesday in a New York Federal Court.

Former President Donald Trump is facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist nearly three decades ago.

BBC News 25 APR 2023

Ms Carroll first came forward with her allegation in 2019

Trump has denied E Jean Carroll's accusation that he attacked her in a Manhattan department store. He has said she made up the claim for publicity.

Though this is not a criminal case, the consequences for Mr Trump could nevertheless be serious.

If Ms Carroll wins the lawsuit, it would be the first time the former president - who has been the subject of more than two dozen such allegations - would be found legally responsible for a sexual assault.

Mr Trump is facing a wave of other legal troubles, including more than two dozen felony counts over payment of hush money to an adult film actress and an investigation into his alleged role in the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.

Mr Trump is also juggling his ongoing bid for the White House next year

What are the accusations?

Ms Carroll, 79, says the attack occurred at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996.

The pair had bumped into each other while shopping, she said. Mr Trump then allegedly asked her for advice when buying lingerie for another woman and jokingly asked her to model it for him. But once in the changing rooms, Ms Carroll said the real estate tycoon lunged at her, pinned her against a wall and assaulted her.

Ms Carroll, whose "Ask E. Jean" advice column has appeared in Elle magazine since 1993, claims she managed to push him off after a "colossal struggle".

She did not report the alleged encounter to police, her complaint said, because she "was in shock and did not wish to think of herself as a rape victim".

Two of Ms Carroll's friends, Carol Martin and Lisa Birnbach, have said the writer told them about the alleged incident within days. Ms Martin and Ms Birchbach are on the list of witnesses that Ms Carroll may call to testify.

What has Trump said?

Mr Trump has issued multiple denials in the years since Ms Carroll came forward with her allegations in 2019.

He has described her claims as a "complete con job" on his social media platform Truth Social, saying the alleged rape "never happened". And during an October deposition for the case, Mr Trump repeated his denials, adding that his accuser is "not my type".

It is so far unclear if Mr Trump will make an appearance during the trial, which is expected to last up to two weeks.

He is not required to attend and Ms Carroll's lawyers have said they do not plan to call him as a witness.

Lawyers for the accuser plan to play to jurors a recording, known as the Access Hollywood tape, in which Mr Trump is heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals. Lawyers for Ms Carroll also plan to call other women who say they were attacked by Mr Trump to testify at the trial.

Why is it a civil case?

The criminal statute of limitations for this case has long expired.

And typically, the statute of limitations for people to bring civil lawsuits over sexual assault in New York is three years, meaning it too has long lapsed.

But in 2022, New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations.

Ms Carroll filed her lawsuit against Mr Trump almost immediately after the law took effect.

Mr Trump also faces felony criminal charges in New York, which he denies

Before this case, the writer had also sued Mr Trump for defamation after he called her a liar following the publication of her memoir. That lawsuit is currently stalled as courts debate whether there is a legal right to sue ex-presidents.

Who is paying Carroll's legal fees?

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and a Democratic donor, has helped pay Ms Carroll's legal bills, according to court filings.

Mr Trump's lawyers tried to delay the trial after they learned of Mr Hoffman's role, saying it raised questions about Ms Carroll's motives. The judge dismissed this motion, but allowed lawyers to ask Ms Carroll about the financing.

In a statement, Mr Hoffman defended his support of Ms Carroll, saying he had "never taken any steps to hide the financial support that I have provided to this lawsuit after it started".

"Our courts are a mechanism of justice for all citizens, not just those with enough money and power to rig the game in their favour," he said.

Ladybbird · 27-04-23, 03:39

Trial Begins in E Jean Carrolls' Rape Suit Against Donald Trump

Donald Trump Rape Accuser E Jean Carroll Takes The Stand

BBC News 27 APR 2023

A former columnist suing Donald Trump over an alleged rape nearly 30 years ago has testified she launched the case "to try and get my life back".

E Jean Carroll told the New York civil rape and defamation trial she had been unable to have a romantic life since the alleged assault.

Ms Carroll claims Mr Trump accosted her in a Manhattan department store in 1996.

He has consistently denied her accusations as "fiction".

"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," Ms Carroll told a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. "He lied and shattered my reputation, and I'm here to try and get my life back."

Ms Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, testified that the encounter with Mr Trump initially began with flirtatious banter after he approached her at the Bergdorf Goodman store and asked if she would help him buy a gift for a friend.

She said the banter quickly took a turn when Mr Trump asked her to try on a piece of lingerie and followed her into a dressing room.

Once inside, she claimed, he closed the door, held her against the wall and raped her.

"As I'm sitting here today I can still feel it," she told the court.

She tried to push Mr Trump off, saying it was clear she didn't want it to happen, she said. The "extremely painful" encounter was over within minutes, she said, and she quickly left the department store.

In the years since, she has felt guilty about her decision to enter the dressing room, Ms Caroll said on Wednesday.

Ms Carroll said she told two friends about the attack, who gave conflicting advice about whether she should go public with her story.

In his questioning, Ms Carroll's lawyer seemed to anticipate questions she may face from Mr Trump's team, including whether she was motivated to sue the former president for political reasons. Ms Carroll, who has voted only for Democratic candidates, said she was not.

Mr Trump, who is running in the 2024 presidential election, has repeatedly denied her allegations.

On Wednesday, on a series of posts on his social media website, he called the account a "fraudulent and false story" and called it into question.

"She didn't scream? There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this?" he wrote.

Mr Trump's post was brought to the attention of US District Judge Lewis Kaplan before witnesses took the stand.

The judge admonished Mr Trump's legal team for their client's behaviour and said the post was "a public statement that, on the face of it, seems entirely inappropriate".

Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told the judge he would ask his client to "refrain from any further posts on this case".

As of Wednesday it was not immediately clear if the former president planned to appear in court in the case, which is expected to last two weeks.

Ms Carroll, 79, will return to the stand on Thursday, where she will likely face cross examination.

She is seeking unspecified damages from Mr Trump, 76.

In 2022, New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations.

Ladybbird · 06-05-23, 02:44

TRUMP Mistook Rape Accuser E Jean Carroll For Ex-Wife, Trial Told

Donald Trump appeared to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him.

BBC News 6 MAY 2023

In the video, Mr Trump was shown a photo of himself speaking to other people at an event.

"It's Marla," he says, before his lawyer corrects him.

"No, that's Carroll," the lawyer says.

Ms Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking

her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, an allegation Mr Trump has denied.

Lawyers for Ms Carroll have argued that Mr Trump's confusion over the photo undermines his claim that Ms Carroll is "not my type", a comment he has repeated since she first came forward with the allegation in 2019.

Mr Trump has not yet attended the civil trial, now drawing to a close after two weeks of proceedings in Manhattan. Both sides rested their case on Thursday, though Mr Trump's team called no witnesses in his defence.

He had told reporters he might cut his ongoing golf trip to Ireland short to "confront" Ms Carroll in court.

"I'll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false, it's fake," Mr Trump said.

E Jean Carroll said the alleged attack left her unable to have a romantic life

Mr Trump's suggestion that he would return to New York comes after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told the judge Mr Trump would not testify in court.

Referring to Mr Trump's comments, the judge said he would give Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide. After that, the judge said, "that ship has irrevocably sailed".

The nine-member jury was shown the video of a combative deposition between the former president and Roberta Kaplan, one of Ms Carroll's lawyers, filmed last October.

Mr Trump continued his emphatic denials of Ms Carroll's accusation, that Mr Trump manoeuvred her into a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan and raped her.

"If it did happen, it would have been reported within minutes," Mr Trump said in the deposition, suggesting that others at the "very busy store" would have heard an ongoing attack.

Jurors in the nearly two-week trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she was left "unable to ever have a romantic life again" after the alleged attack.

Marla Maples was married to Mr Trump from 1993 until 1999

Her account was supported in court by her friend, Lisa Birnbach, who testified this week to receiving a call from Ms Carroll minutes after she says she was raped.

And two other women - Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff - were called by Ms Carroll's team and described alleged sexual assaults committed by Mr Trump - claims he has denied.

A former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.

The act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.

Ladybbird · 09-05-23, 16:25

TRUMP 'Knows What He Did', Lawyer Alleges as Civil RAPE Trial Draws to Close

Jury hears closing remarks in Donald Trump civil rape case

BBC News 9 MAY 2023

A lawyer for a writer accusing Donald Trump of rape in a civil trial urged a jury to hold the ex-president liable for the alleged assault.

"No one, not even a former president, is above the law," lawyer Roberta Kaplan said on Monday.

E Jean Carroll alleges Mr Trump raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, which he denies.

In closing remarks in New York, Mr Trump's legal team accused Ms Carroll of "bringing a false claim".

The nine-member jury are due to begin deliberations on Tuesday morning in the civil rape and defamation trial against the former president, after they receive instructions from US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Roberta Kaplan.

The jury has been hearing arguments over the past two weeks in a Manhattan federal court.

In their closing statement, Ms Carroll's attorneys focused on previous remarks Mr Trump has made about women.

Ms Kaplan pointed to Mr Trump's controversial remarks in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape, which emerged publicly in 2016.

Referring to the comments, she said: "He kissed [women] without consent, he grabbed them, he did not wait."

She argued the remarks had been a "playbook" for how he treated Ms Carroll and other women.

Ms Kaplan also said "self-blame" had kept Ms Carroll from going to the police for decades.

In his closing statement, Mr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina focused on seeking to cast doubt on the details of Ms Carroll's story, which he at one point called "a work of fiction".

He questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the assault, arguing that stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.

It was "not a coincidence" none of the witnesses Ms Carroll had called could provide an exact date, he argued.

He also raised questions about the scene of the alleged assault, calling it "unbelievable" it could have occurred in a popular department store without any employees to witness it.

Mr Tacopina argued the story had been "ripped from the pages of Law and Order SVU", referring to a 2012 episode of the popular crime show in which a woman was raped in the lingerie department of a Bergdorf Goodman store.

Ms Carroll has acknowledged her alleged assault occurred in the same place as the episode, which was released before she came forward with her allegation in 2019, but she said that was a coincidence.

"What's the likelihood of that?" Mr Tacopina asked.

The former president did not appear at the trial in person but instead was present in a video of an October deposition played for the court.

"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the video. "It's just made up."

Ms Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in 1995 or 1996, and then defaming her by denying it happened.

Jurors in the trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she had been left "unable to ever have a romantic life again" after the alleged attack.

A former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.

The act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.

The key moments from Trump's civil rape trial

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A THIRD Woman Accuses TRUMP of Sexual Assault at E. Jean Carroll Civil Rape Trial

Through tears, Natasha Stoynoff, an author and freelance journalist, told the court Trump assaulted her at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 27, 2005, when she was on assignment for People magazine covering his one-year wedding anniversary.

Stoynoff said during a day of interviewing Trump and his new wife, Melania, Trump led the reporter to an empty room on the premises, where he cornered and started kissing her against her will after closing the door.

“I went in first and I’m looking around, I’m thinking, ‘Wow, really nice room, wonder what he wants to show me.’ And he — I hear the door shut behind me. And by the time I turn around, he has his hands on my shoulders and he pushes me against the wall and starts kissing me, holding me against the wall,” Stoynoff testified.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan federal court facing sexual battery and defamation claims. Carroll, 79, alleges he raped her on an unoccupied floor of Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s after they ran into each other in a chance encounter, and he asked her to help pick out a present for an unnamed woman.

The longtime advice columnist says Trump defamed her in an October 2022 Truth Social post that alleged she made the whole thing up and that he had never met her.

Stoynoff’s account is one of three the jury has heard accusing Trump of sexually assaulting a woman at random, refusing to stop when they fought back, and disparaging their looks when they came forward. The allegations span a 26-year period.

Stoynoff told the jury she covered the Trump beat for People magazine and had interviewed him eight or nine times before the alleged incident. She said it occurred on a break during a long day of interviews, when a heavily pregnant Melania was getting changed after a shoot by the swimming pool, and Trump invited her to come look at a painting.

Stoynoff said Trump stopped what he was doing when his head butler walked in, who was her point-of-contact while she was on assignment at Trump’s Florida residence.

“I don’t know if he saw, but to my mind, I gave [the butler] a kind of a ‘get me out of here’ look, and I felt like he understood,” Stoynoff said.

After the alleged assault, Stoynoff said she had to interview the newlyweds together. As she and Trump walked over to meet his new wife via a patio, Stoynoff described him making several jarring comments.

“He said, Oh, you know we are going to have an affair, don’t you? You know, don’t forget what — don’t forget what Marla said, best sex she ever had. We are going to go for steak, we are going to go to Peter Luger’s. We’re going to have an affair,” Stoynoff quoted Trump in court.

Stoynoff described being shell-shocked.

“I was so shocked and flustered at what had just transpired and what was transpiring that, like, I couldn’t get words out. I was just like choked up. I couldn’t answer him,” Stoynoff told the jury.

When she left Mar-a-Lago, Stoynoff told a professor she was close with from journalism school, a close friend, and her direct supervisor at People, she testified. She told the jury she didn’t want to run it further up the chain out of fear they’d kill the magazine story, and Trump would seek revenge against her.

Stoynoff told the court the following year, she bumped into Melania with her new baby, Barron, outside Trump Tower, who asked why they didn’t see her anymore.

Stoynoff, who’s Canadian, told jurors she wasn’t registered to vote in the U.S. and often voted for conservative politicians in her home country. She decided to come forward with her allegations shortly after the “Access Hollwyood” tape was leaked when Trump was running for president and he denied sexual misconduct allegations.

”I actually for the first time thought to myself, oh, he does this to a lot of women. It’s not just me. It’s not just something I did,” Stoynoff told the court in emotional testimony.

Carroll’s lawyers played the infamous clip when Trump said, “grab ‘em by the p---y,” with most of the jurors watching with blank expressions.

Toward the end of Stoynoff’s testimony, jurors saw footage of Trump telling a crowd: “Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me. I don’t think so.”

“I am assuming he means that I am unattractive,” Stoynoff said in court.

Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina asked Stoynoff one question on cross-examination, whether she had sued Trump. She said no.

After Stoynoff’s testimony, Carroll’s lawyers played part of Trump’s deposition from their litigation last year. In the footage, a combative Trump said Carroll had invented a “ridiculous, disgusting story.”

“It’s just made up,” Trump said.

The jury will see more portions of the deposition on Thursday. The Daily News previously reported on unsealed excerpts of the deposition, when Trump called Carroll a “whack job,” “nut job,” and “sick, mentally sick.”

Earlier Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers said they would not present any witnesses to defend against writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim the former president brutally raped her at Bergdorf Goodman.

Trump originally had two people on his witness list: himself and psychiatrist Edgar Nace, who his lawyers told the court could not make it. Trump’s legal team said Monday that he didn’t plan to take the stand.

Asked by reporters in Ireland Wednesday why he was there at his golf course and not at the trial, Trump made vague reference to a “longstanding agreement,” according to video clips of the question.

“I hear things are going really well in New York,” he said.

Judge Lewis Kaplan told jurors they would likely begin their deliberations early next week.

During the first half of Wednesday’s proceedings, jurors heard from an expert witness for Carroll, clinical psychologist Leslie Lebowitz, who testified about her extensive evaluation of Carroll.

Lebowitz said she determined Carroll had suffered significantly due to the alleged assault, including experiencing unwanted intrusive thoughts.

When he cross-examined Carroll last week, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina asked why she didn’t scream during the alleged assault or call the police. He also tried to pick apart her memories of when the assault occurred. Carroll has acknowledged throughout the years-long litigation that she doesn’t know exactly which year it happened between 1994 and 1996.

Lebowitz said stress hormones released during a traumatic encounter can interfere with one’s instincts. She said it’s common for victims to remember intricate details about an event and forget broader ones, like forgetting how they left, where it happened, or when it happened.

Lebowitz said her sit-downs with Carroll, over a course of 20 to 22 hours, determined she had diminished self-esteem due to the attack and avoidance, causing a complete shutdown of her ability to be intimate with another person.

During Lebowitz’s cross-examination, Trump’s lawyer Chad Seigel drew several sustained objections for asking argumentative questions, which frustrated Judge Kaplan.

The defense lawyer also peppered Lebowitz with questions about whether Carroll was diagnosed with psychiatric issues directly from the assault. Lebowitz said she hadn’t been, though she said Carroll displayed multiple symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“[It] made her feel like she was worth less than she had been before. She felt degraded and diminished. She felt like she had been treated as if she wasn’t even a person,” Lebowitz said.

Trump denies all wrongdoing.

Ladybbird · 10-05-23, 04:15

BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll And Owes $5 Million In Damages, Jury Finds

E Jean Carroll: Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store...

BBC News 10 MAY 2023

TRUMP The Sex Attacker

A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.

But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.

The jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a Hoax and a lie".

It is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.

The Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.

The jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday.

"Today, the world finally knows the truth," Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. "This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed."

Mr Trump's lawyer said the former president plans to appeal the decision.

Because the trial was in civil court rather than criminal, Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender.

The former president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.

Ms Carroll, 79, held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury.

Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: "Congratulations and good luck."

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: "This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere."

After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.

"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!"

The standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.

While the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.

A Tense Two-Week Trial

The trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.

Her legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996.

They included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One woman told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a flight in the 1970s. Another woman said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him for an article she was writing in 2005.

Two long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them about the encounter shortly after it occurred.

On the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.

"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," she told the court.

Mr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape.

"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the footage. "It's just made up."

Ms Carroll's lawsuit also argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie".

Her legal team argued Mr Trump had acted as a "witness against himself" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording.

In the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars "do anything" to them, including grabbing their genitals.

That's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued.

In the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump at one point confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his claim that she was "not his type".

Mr Tacopina sought to cast doubt on Ms Carroll's story, which he called "a work of fiction".

He questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.

"With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi, you can't call witnesses," Mr Tacopina said.

"What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts."

Mr Tacopina also pressed her on why she did not report a crime to police or scream while it occurred.

The former Elle magazine columnist was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.

The law allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.

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Ladybbird · 10-05-23, 23:30

FEMALE STAFF MAKE NEW ALLEGATIONS AGAINST TRUMP

Trump White House Aides Say They Told Higher-Ups About Sexual Harassment Towards Women

BBC News 11 MAY 2023

Two former Trump White House officials said Tuesday that they reported instances of what they described as the ex-president’s improper behavior toward women to other senior staffers, hours after a jury in a New York civil court found him liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages.

Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin said she had seen “countless cases” of what she considers “impropriety” in the White House that she reported to Trump’s various chiefs of staff, including Mark Meadows.

When Tapper specifically asked Farah if she informed Meadows or other chiefs of staff about instances she witnessed of “Donald Trump behaving inappropriately with women,” she said she did and so did former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.

Grisham, whose books included examples of Trump’s alleged harassment of women in the White House, later appeared on CNN and confirmed Farah’s claims.

Speaking to CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Grisham said she had spoken to several different chiefs of staff, including Meadows, about Trump’s behavior, but she thought there wasn’t much they could do other than tell him, “This isn’t good, sir.”

Saying, “Donald Trump will do what Donald Trump wants to do,” Grisham reiterated Trump’s alleged lewd remarks about a specific female staffer whom she claims she had to try and protect

Grisham said Trump had asked one of her deputies to bring the female staffer on his trips “so that they could look at her ass.”

04-10-22, 06:07	#1
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women Confidence Man: Key Revelations From New Book on TRUMP *Former US President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter and routinely flushed documents down the toilet.* New York Times 4 OCT 2022. Former US President Donald Trump has dismissed the book as "made up stories" These explosive details and more are revealed in New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman's highly-anticipated book Confidence Man, which is released on Tuesday. The book follows Mr Trump from his time as a New York businessman to his life after the presidency. It draws from interviews with more than 200 sources, including former aides as well as three interviews with Mr Trump himself. The former president has attacked Haberman, writing on his social media platform that the book contains "many made up stories with zero fact checking". Here are eight of Confidence Man's biggest revelations: 1) Trump wanted to fire Ivanka and Jared Kushner At a meeting with then-Chief of Staff John Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Haberman writes that Mr Trump was close to tweeting that his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner - both senior White House aides - were leaving their positions. He was stopped by Mr Kelly, who advised him to speak with Ivanka and Mr Kushner first before sending the tweet. Mr Trump never spoke with them, and they both remained White House aides until the end of his presidency. The book also reveals that Mr Trump frequently talked down on his son-in-law, and once commented that Mr Kushner "sounds like a child" after hearing a public speech he gave in 2017. Mr Trump has denied ever wanting to fire Ivanka and her husband. "Pure fiction. Never even crossed my mind," he said. 2) Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico Haberman writes that Mr Trump raised the prospect of bombing Mexican drug labs several times - a suggestion that stunned former-US Defence Secretary Mark Esper. The idea stemmed from a conversation that Mr Trump had with Brett Giroir, a public health officer and an admiral with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Mr Giroir walked into the Oval Office wearing a dress uniform - as is customary for public health officers in the corps - and said to Mr Trump that facilities producing illegal drugs in Mexico should be handled by putting "a lead to target" to stop illicit substances from coming over the border. Mistaking Mr Giroir for a military officer, Mr Trump then suggested bombing the drug facilities. In response, the White House asked Mr Giroir to stop wearing his uniform. 3) Trump was scared of dying from Covid-19 When Mr Trump fell ill with Covid-19 in October 2020, his condition at the White House was worsening and he was fearful of dying. At one point, his deputy chief of staff, Tony Ornato, warned the president that if his health deteriorated further he would have to set in motion procedures to ensure the continuity of government. This fear existed despite several attempts by Mr Trump to minimize the pandemic, as he worried the virus was negatively impacting his image and political motivations. Haberman writes that he asked aides around him to take off their masks, and that he advised then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo to not talk about the virus on TV. "Don't make such a big deal out of this," Mr Trump said to Mr Cuomo, according to the book. "You're going to make it a problem." 4) Trump mentioned his property in UK PM meeting Haberman's book details several encounters between Mr Trump and world leaders. For instance, in his first meeting with then-UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Mr Trump spoke about abortion, saying "some people are pro-life, some people are pro-choice. Imagine if some animals with tattoos raped your daughter and she got pregnant?" He then changed the subject in a conversation on Northern Ireland to discuss how to block an offshore wind project from being set up near his property. 5) Trump asked Giuliani to "do anything" to overturn 2020 election When it became apparent that Mr Trump was losing the 2020 election to US President Joe Biden, he called former New York City mayor and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. "Okay, Rudy, you're in charge. Go wild, do anything you want. I don't care," Mr Trump said, after other lawyers refused to go as far as he has requested in his bid to overturn the election results. "My lawyers are terrible," he said to Mr Giuliani, according to the book. He also frequently berated White House counsel Pat Cipollone. The book reveals that at the time, Mr Trump was enamoured with conspiracy theories and sought out lawyers that his own advisers felt were deluded. 6) Trump came up with a taxes excuse on the fly On a plane while campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump was asked by his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and his press secretary Hope Hicks to address his refusal to release his tax returns - an issue they saw as a problem for Mr Trump's White House bid. Haberman writes that Mr Trump responded by leaning back before snapping to a sudden thought: "Well, you know my taxes are under audit, I always get audited," he said. "So what I mean is, well I could just say, 'I'll release them when I'm no longer under audit. 'Cause I'll never not be under audit." Since Richard Nixon, every US president has voluntarily released their tax returns. A 2020 New York Times investigation has since revealed that Mr Trump paid $750 (£662) in federal income taxes the year he became president. 7) Trump flushed documents down a White House toilet When Mr Trump was in office, White House staff periodically discovered that the toilet was clogged with printed paper and believed he had flushed documents. He also allegedly tore up documents, which contravenes the Presidential Records Act - a law that says documents created or received by a president are the property of the US government and are to be handled by the US National Archives once the presidency ends. The details are revealed amid wider allegations of missing documents from Mr Trump's White House levelled by the National Archives. Mr Trump also faces a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for keeping government records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office. 8) Trump thought ethnic minority staffers were waiters At a congressional meeting shortly after his 2017 inauguration, Haberman writes that Mr Trump turned to a racially diverse group of Democratic staffers and asked them to fetch canapes, mistaking them for waiters. The book details that Mr Trump made the remarks to staffers for Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi. Haberman also documents a history of homophobic remarks allegedly uttered by Mr Trump. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. 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20-10-22, 11:45	#2
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: TRUMP Questioned Under Oath Over RAPE Allegations Against him TRUMP Questioned Under Oath Over RAPE Accusers' Defamation Case Former US President Donald Trump has answered questions under oath in a lawsuit brought against him by an advice columnist who says he raped her. BBC News 20 OCT 2022. The alleged assault is said to have taken place while Mr Trump was married to Marla Maples,,,, Writer E Jean Carroll first detailed her allegation against Donald Trump in a 2019 article E Jean Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Mr Trump denied the claim and said Ms Carroll was lying, prompting her to sue him for defamation. Ms Carroll's attorney did not release details of the deposition, but said it took place on Wednesday. A civil trial in the case is scheduled for 6 February. "We're pleased that on behalf of our client, E Jean Carroll, we were able to take Donald Trump's deposition today," a spokesperson for law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink said. "We are not able to comment further." Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement: "As we have said all along, my client was pleased to set the record straight today. "This case is nothing more than a political ploy like many others in the long list of witch hunts against Donald Trump." It is unclear what Mr Trump said during the deposition, or whether he spoke in person or remotely. According to CNN, he participated from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In a 2019 article for New York magazine, Ms Carroll - a longtime Elle advice columnist - said she had a chance encounter with Trump in late 1995 or early 1996 at the department store Bergdorf Goodman. She said she was helping him pick out a gift and the two of them ended up in a dressing room, where she alleges that he raped her. She says she was 52 and he was around 50, and Mr Trump was married to Marla Maples. At the time, Ms Carroll also said she told two friends about the incident. One advised her to go to the police, but the other warned her to keep quiet, saying: "Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He'll bury you." Trump quickly dismissed the allegation, accusing Ms Carroll of lying to sell her book. She then filed a defamation lawsuit against Mr Trump while he was US president, saying his comments had harmed her reputation. Trump's lawyers tried to delay the deposition, but Judge Lewis A Kaplan of the federal court in Manhattan last week denied the request. Trump had responded to that legal setback by taking to social media to say "this 'Ms Bergdorf Goodman' case is a complete con job". More than a dozen women have previously made sexual misconduct allegations against Mr Trump, which he has denied. Last month, Ms Carroll's lawyers said she intends to sue Mr Trump a second time under a new law that gives adult sexual assault victims a one-time opportunity to file civil lawsuits even if the statute of limitations has expired. She plans to file the new lawsuit on 24 November, her attorney said. This is the latest in a string of legal challenges facing Mr Trump. Among other cases, he is facing allegations of fraud by New York prosecutors, who filed a lawsuit against him in September, and is being investigated by the Department of Justice for removing allegedly classified government documents from the White House and storing them at Mar-a-Lago. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

25-11-22, 08:54	#3
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Judge Calls TRUMPs’ Attempt to Dismiss Rape Lawsuit Absurd TRUMP Sued For RAPE Allegations as New York Adult Survivors Act Takes Effect Writer E Jean Carroll has sued Donald Trump in the US state of New York for allegedly raping her TRUMP ALSO Sued For $250M Over Fraud Allegations.. Total Financial Fraud ... NY State Wants $250 Mil *Trump* *inflated his net worth by billions in order to get better loans, and now the state of NY is taking him to court over it ... seeking $250 million and penalties for his children too.* BBC News 25 NOV Ms Carroll, is among the first to sue under the Adult Survivors Act, which came into effect on Thursday. The state law allows a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in New York over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations... The former president has denied the allegations against him. Ms Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room 27 years ago. The Adult Survivors Act allows victims to come forward if the sexual assault occurred when they were over the age of 18 and took place on a date that exceeds time limits that exists on most felonies. It is modelled after the state's recent Child Abuse Act, which applied to victims who were abused as minors. The Child Abuse Act, which came into effect in 2019, allowed a two-year period for victims to come forward. Around 11,000 lawsuits were filed in New York against churches, hospitals, schools, camps and other institutions under that law. Ms Carroll has also sued former President Trump for defamation after he accused her of lying when she first made her allegations public in 2019. Mr Trump has called Ms Carroll's claims "fiction". A civil trial for that case is scheduled for 6 February. In a statement, Ms Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the new lawsuit filed on Thursday is intended to hold Mr Trump accountable for the alleged assault. Alina Habba, a lawyer for Mr Trump, told US media that, while she respects and admires individuals that come forward "this case is unfortunately an abuse of the purpose of this Act" and "runs the risk of delegitimising the credibility of actual victims". Others are also planning to file lawsuits under the new law. This includes a planned class action lawsuit against Robert Hadden, a former gynaecologist at hospitals tied to New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University, who has been accused by dozens of patients of sexual abuse. Mr Hadden was convicted in 2016 on sex-related charges in state court, but has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of abusing female patients over two decades. Advocates for survivors of sex abuse believe the legislation provides an opportunity for people to come forward who may not have done so previously due to trauma or fear of retaliation. Several other states have also extended or temporarily eliminated their statues of limitation on sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo in 2018, including New Jersey, California, Arizona and Montana. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

14-01-23, 21:31	#4
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: Judge Calls TRUMPs’ Attempt to Dismiss Rape Lawsuit Absurd Judge Calls TRUMPs’ Attempt to Dismiss E Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit Absurd **Trump claimed woman who accused him of sexual assault in a luxury department store said 'Rape Was Sexy' and 'indicated that she loved it'** Ruling made in second case brought against former president by writer who alleges he sexually assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman BBC 14 JAN 2023 A judge on Friday rejected as “absurd” Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit from the writer E Jean Carroll, who alleges he raped her in a department store changing room in New York in the mid-1990s. Donald Trump himself was not on trial and denied any knowledge of his executives evading taxes illegally. Carroll has sued Trump for defamation, for remarks while denying her allegation including that she was not his “type”. But the lawsuit which the New York judge, Lewis Kaplan, refused to dismiss on Friday was brought against the former president under the Adult Survivors Act, a new state law which gives adults a one-year window to sue alleged attackers even if statutes of limitations have expired. In his ruling in Manhattan, Kaplan said there was no merit to Trump’s argument that Carroll’s claim must be dismissed because the law denied him due process under the state constitution. The judge also said state law did not require Carroll, a former Elle columnist, to prove she suffered an economic loss from Trump’s comments, as Trump had argued. Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said “we are disappointed with the court’s decision” and planned an immediate appeal. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said “we are pleased though not surprised”. Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996. She first sued after Trump denied the accusation in June 2019, telling a reporter at the White House he did not know Carroll, who was “not my type”, and that she concocted the claim to sell a memoir. The second lawsuit arose from an October 2022 social media post in which Trump called the rape claim a “hoax”, “lie”, “con job” and “complete scam”, and said “this can only happen to ‘Trump’!” That lawsuit included a battery claim under the Adult Survivors Act. Kaplan said Trump was “demonstrably incorrect” to claim the law was unconstitutional because lawmakers did not sufficiently explain why it was needed. The judge said lawmakers passed the law to help sexual abuse victims who might have suppressed memories of their attacks, or like Carroll were deterred from suing out of fear. “To suggest that the ASA violates the state due process clause because the legislature supposedly did not describe that injustice to the defendant’s entire satisfaction in a particular paragraph of a particular type of legislative document – itself a dubious premise – is absurd,” Kaplan wrote. Trump is seeking another White House term in 2024. He and Carroll are awaiting a decision from a Washington DC appeals court on whether, under local law, Trump should be immune from Carroll’s first lawsuit. That suit would probably be dismissed if the court decided Trump spoke within his role as president, but continue if Trump spoke in his personal capacity, as Carroll argued. Donald Trump once praised a Montana congressman who body-slammed a Guardian reporter. Musk, meanwhile, has described the Guardian, as “the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.” I’m not sure there is any greater compliment. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

25-04-23, 06:35	#5
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: Judge Rejects TRUMPs’ Attempt to Delay Civil Rape Case TRUMP Faces Civil Trial For E Jean Carroll Rape Allegation Judge Rejects TRUMPs’ Request to Delay Civil Rape Case -Jury Selection is Due to Begin on Tuesday in a New York Federal Court. Former President Donald Trump is facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist nearly three decades ago. BBC News 25 APR 2023 Ms Carroll first came forward with her allegation in 2019 Trump has denied E Jean Carroll's accusation that he attacked her in a Manhattan department store. He has said she made up the claim for publicity. Though this is not a criminal case, the consequences for Mr Trump could nevertheless be serious. If Ms Carroll wins the lawsuit, it would be the first time the former president - who has been the subject of more than two dozen such allegations - would be found legally responsible for a sexual assault. Mr Trump is facing a wave of other legal troubles, including more than two dozen felony counts over payment of hush money to an adult film actress and an investigation into his alleged role in the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021. Mr Trump is also juggling his ongoing bid for the White House next year What are the accusations? Ms Carroll, 79, says the attack occurred at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996. The pair had bumped into each other while shopping, she said. Mr Trump then allegedly asked her for advice when buying lingerie for another woman and jokingly asked her to model it for him. But once in the changing rooms, Ms Carroll said the real estate tycoon lunged at her, pinned her against a wall and assaulted her. Ms Carroll, whose "Ask E. Jean" advice column has appeared in Elle magazine since 1993, claims she managed to push him off after a "colossal struggle". She did not report the alleged encounter to police, her complaint said, because she "was in shock and did not wish to think of herself as a rape victim". Two of Ms Carroll's friends, Carol Martin and Lisa Birnbach, have said the writer told them about the alleged incident within days. Ms Martin and Ms Birchbach are on the list of witnesses that Ms Carroll may call to testify. What has Trump said? Mr Trump has issued multiple denials in the years since Ms Carroll came forward with her allegations in 2019. He has described her claims as a "complete con job" on his social media platform Truth Social, saying the alleged rape "never happened". And during an October deposition for the case, Mr Trump repeated his denials, adding that his accuser is "not my type". It is so far unclear if Mr Trump will make an appearance during the trial, which is expected to last up to two weeks. He is not required to attend and Ms Carroll's lawyers have said they do not plan to call him as a witness. Lawyers for the accuser plan to play to jurors a recording, known as the Access Hollywood tape, in which Mr Trump is heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals. Lawyers for Ms Carroll also plan to call other women who say they were attacked by Mr Trump to testify at the trial. Why is it a civil case? The criminal statute of limitations for this case has long expired. And typically, the statute of limitations for people to bring civil lawsuits over sexual assault in New York is three years, meaning it too has long lapsed. But in 2022, New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations. Ms Carroll filed her lawsuit against Mr Trump almost immediately after the law took effect. Mr Trump also faces felony criminal charges in New York, which he denies Before this case, the writer had also sued Mr Trump for defamation after he called her a liar following the publication of her memoir. That lawsuit is currently stalled as courts debate whether there is a legal right to sue ex-presidents. Who is paying Carroll's legal fees? Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and a Democratic donor, has helped pay Ms Carroll's legal bills, according to court filings. Mr Trump's lawyers tried to delay the trial after they learned of Mr Hoffman's role, saying it raised questions about Ms Carroll's motives. The judge dismissed this motion, but allowed lawyers to ask Ms Carroll about the financing. In a statement, Mr Hoffman defended his support of Ms Carroll, saying he had "never taken any steps to hide the financial support that I have provided to this lawsuit after it started". "Our courts are a mechanism of justice for all citizens, not just those with enough money and power to rig the game in their favour," he said. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

27-04-23, 03:39	#6
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women Trial Begins in E Jean Carrolls' Rape Suit Against Donald Trump Donald Trump Rape Accuser E Jean Carroll Takes The Stand BBC News 27 APR 2023 A former columnist suing Donald Trump over an alleged rape nearly 30 years ago has testified she launched the case "to try and get my life back". E Jean Carroll told the New York civil rape and defamation trial she had been unable to have a romantic life since the alleged assault. Ms Carroll claims Mr Trump accosted her in a Manhattan department store in 1996. He has consistently denied her accusations as "fiction". "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," Ms Carroll told a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. "He lied and shattered my reputation, and I'm here to try and get my life back." Ms Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, testified that the encounter with Mr Trump initially began with flirtatious banter after he approached her at the Bergdorf Goodman store and asked if she would help him buy a gift for a friend. She said the banter quickly took a turn when Mr Trump asked her to try on a piece of lingerie and followed her into a dressing room. Once inside, she claimed, he closed the door, held her against the wall and raped her. "As I'm sitting here today I can still feel it," she told the court. She tried to push Mr Trump off, saying it was clear she didn't want it to happen, she said. The "extremely painful" encounter was over within minutes, she said, and she quickly left the department store. In the years since, she has felt guilty about her decision to enter the dressing room, Ms Caroll said on Wednesday. Ms Carroll said she told two friends about the attack, who gave conflicting advice about whether she should go public with her story. In his questioning, Ms Carroll's lawyer seemed to anticipate questions she may face from Mr Trump's team, including whether she was motivated to sue the former president for political reasons. Ms Carroll, who has voted only for Democratic candidates, said she was not. Mr Trump, who is running in the 2024 presidential election, has repeatedly denied her allegations. On Wednesday, on a series of posts on his social media website, he called the account a "fraudulent and false story" and called it into question. "She didn't scream? There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this?" he wrote. Mr Trump's post was brought to the attention of US District Judge Lewis Kaplan before witnesses took the stand. The judge admonished Mr Trump's legal team for their client's behaviour and said the post was "a public statement that, on the face of it, seems entirely inappropriate". Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told the judge he would ask his client to "refrain from any further posts on this case". As of Wednesday it was not immediately clear if the former president planned to appear in court in the case, which is expected to last two weeks. Ms Carroll, 79, will return to the stand on Thursday, where she will likely face cross examination. She is seeking unspecified damages from Mr Trump, 76. In 2022, New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

06-05-23, 02:44	#7
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women TRUMP Mistook Rape Accuser E Jean Carroll For Ex-Wife, Trial Told Donald Trump appeared to mistake E Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a deposition played for jurors in Ms Carroll's civil rape suit against him. BBC News 6 MAY 2023 In the video, Mr Trump was shown a photo of himself speaking to other people at an event. "It's Marla," he says, before his lawyer corrects him. "No, that's Carroll," the lawyer says. Ms Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, an allegation Mr Trump has denied. Lawyers for Ms Carroll have argued that Mr Trump's confusion over the photo undermines his claim that Ms Carroll is "not my type", a comment he has repeated since she first came forward with the allegation in 2019. Mr Trump has not yet attended the civil trial, now drawing to a close after two weeks of proceedings in Manhattan. Both sides rested their case on Thursday, though Mr Trump's team called no witnesses in his defence. He had told reporters he might cut his ongoing golf trip to Ireland short to "confront" Ms Carroll in court. "I'll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false, it's fake," Mr Trump said. E Jean Carroll said the alleged attack left her unable to have a romantic life Mr Trump's suggestion that he would return to New York comes after his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told the judge Mr Trump would not testify in court. Referring to Mr Trump's comments, the judge said he would give Mr Trump until Sunday afternoon to decide. After that, the judge said, "that ship has irrevocably sailed". The nine-member jury was shown the video of a combative deposition between the former president and Roberta Kaplan, one of Ms Carroll's lawyers, filmed last October. Mr Trump continued his emphatic denials of Ms Carroll's accusation, that Mr Trump manoeuvred her into a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan and raped her. "If it did happen, it would have been reported within minutes," Mr Trump said in the deposition, suggesting that others at the "very busy store" would have heard an ongoing attack. Jurors in the nearly two-week trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she was left "unable to ever have a romantic life again" after the alleged attack. Marla Maples was married to Mr Trump from 1993 until 1999 Her account was supported in court by her friend, Lisa Birnbach, who testified this week to receiving a call from Ms Carroll minutes after she says she was raped. And two other women - Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff - were called by Ms Carroll's team and described alleged sexual assaults committed by Mr Trump - claims he has denied. A former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022. The act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

09-05-23, 16:25	#8
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women TRUMP 'Knows What He Did', Lawyer Alleges as Civil RAPE Trial Draws to Close Jury hears closing remarks in Donald Trump civil rape case BBC News 9 MAY 2023 A lawyer for a writer accusing Donald Trump of rape in a civil trial urged a jury to hold the ex-president liable for the alleged assault. "No one, not even a former president, is above the law," lawyer Roberta Kaplan said on Monday. E Jean Carroll alleges Mr Trump raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, which he denies. In closing remarks in New York, Mr Trump's legal team accused Ms Carroll of "bringing a false claim". The nine-member jury are due to begin deliberations on Tuesday morning in the civil rape and defamation trial against the former president, after they receive instructions from US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Roberta Kaplan. The jury has been hearing arguments over the past two weeks in a Manhattan federal court. In their closing statement, Ms Carroll's attorneys focused on previous remarks Mr Trump has made about women. Ms Kaplan pointed to Mr Trump's controversial remarks in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape, which emerged publicly in 2016. Referring to the comments, she said: "He kissed [women] without consent, he grabbed them, he did not wait." She argued the remarks had been a "playbook" for how he treated Ms Carroll and other women. Ms Kaplan also said "self-blame" had kept Ms Carroll from going to the police for decades. In his closing statement, Mr Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina focused on seeking to cast doubt on the details of Ms Carroll's story, which he at one point called "a work of fiction". He questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the assault, arguing that stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi. It was "not a coincidence" none of the witnesses Ms Carroll had called could provide an exact date, he argued. He also raised questions about the scene of the alleged assault, calling it "unbelievable" it could have occurred in a popular department store without any employees to witness it. Mr Tacopina argued the story had been "ripped from the pages of Law and Order SVU", referring to a 2012 episode of the popular crime show in which a woman was raped in the lingerie department of a Bergdorf Goodman store. Ms Carroll has acknowledged her alleged assault occurred in the same place as the episode, which was released before she came forward with her allegation in 2019, but she said that was a coincidence. "What's the likelihood of that?" Mr Tacopina asked. The former president did not appear at the trial in person but instead was present in a video of an October deposition played for the court. "It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the video. "It's just made up." Ms Carroll, 79, has accused Mr Trump, 76, of attacking her in 1995 or 1996, and then defaming her by denying it happened. Jurors in the trial heard days of graphic testimony. Ms Carroll told jurors she had been left "unable to ever have a romantic life again" after the alleged attack. A former columnist for Elle magazine, Ms Carroll was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022. The act allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations. *The key moments from Trump's civil rape trial* MORE; A THIRD Woman Accuses TRUMP of Sexual Assault at E. Jean Carroll Civil Rape Trial Through tears, Natasha Stoynoff, an author and freelance journalist, told the court Trump assaulted her at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 27, 2005, when she was on assignment for People magazine covering his one-year wedding anniversary. Stoynoff said during a day of interviewing Trump and his new wife, Melania, Trump led the reporter to an empty room on the premises, where he cornered and started kissing her against her will after closing the door. “I went in first and I’m looking around, I’m thinking, ‘Wow, really nice room, wonder what he wants to show me.’ And he — I hear the door shut behind me. And by the time I turn around, he has his hands on my shoulders and he pushes me against the wall and starts kissing me, holding me against the wall,” Stoynoff testified. Trump is on trial in Manhattan federal court facing sexual battery and defamation claims. Carroll, 79, alleges he raped her on an unoccupied floor of Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s after they ran into each other in a chance encounter, and he asked her to help pick out a present for an unnamed woman. The longtime advice columnist says Trump defamed her in an October 2022 Truth Social post that alleged she made the whole thing up and that he had never met her. Stoynoff’s account is one of three the jury has heard accusing Trump of sexually assaulting a woman at random, refusing to stop when they fought back, and disparaging their looks when they came forward. The allegations span a 26-year period. Stoynoff told the jury she covered the Trump beat for People magazine and had interviewed him eight or nine times before the alleged incident. She said it occurred on a break during a long day of interviews, when a heavily pregnant Melania was getting changed after a shoot by the swimming pool, and Trump invited her to come look at a painting. Stoynoff said Trump stopped what he was doing when his head butler walked in, who was her point-of-contact while she was on assignment at Trump’s Florida residence. “I don’t know if he saw, but to my mind, I gave [the butler] a kind of a ‘get me out of here’ look, and I felt like he understood,” Stoynoff said. After the alleged assault, Stoynoff said she had to interview the newlyweds together. As she and Trump walked over to meet his new wife via a patio, Stoynoff described him making several jarring comments. “He said, Oh, you know we are going to have an affair, don’t you? You know, don’t forget what — don’t forget what Marla said, best sex she ever had. We are going to go for steak, we are going to go to Peter Luger’s. We’re going to have an affair,” Stoynoff quoted Trump in court. Stoynoff described being shell-shocked. “I was so shocked and flustered at what had just transpired and what was transpiring that, like, I couldn’t get words out. I was just like choked up. I couldn’t answer him,” Stoynoff told the jury. When she left Mar-a-Lago, Stoynoff told a professor she was close with from journalism school, a close friend, and her direct supervisor at People, she testified. She told the jury she didn’t want to run it further up the chain out of fear they’d kill the magazine story, and Trump would seek revenge against her. Stoynoff told the court the following year, she bumped into Melania with her new baby, Barron, outside Trump Tower, who asked why they didn’t see her anymore. Stoynoff, who’s Canadian, told jurors she wasn’t registered to vote in the U.S. and often voted for conservative politicians in her home country. She decided to come forward with her allegations shortly after the “Access Hollwyood” tape was leaked when Trump was running for president and he denied sexual misconduct allegations. ”I actually for the first time thought to myself, oh, he does this to a lot of women. It’s not just me. It’s not just something I did,” Stoynoff told the court in emotional testimony. Carroll’s lawyers played the infamous clip when Trump said, “grab ‘em by the p---y,” with most of the jurors watching with blank expressions. Toward the end of Stoynoff’s testimony, jurors saw footage of Trump telling a crowd: “Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me. I don’t think so.” “I am assuming he means that I am unattractive,” Stoynoff said in court. Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina asked Stoynoff one question on cross-examination, whether she had sued Trump. She said no. After Stoynoff’s testimony, Carroll’s lawyers played part of Trump’s deposition from their litigation last year. In the footage, a combative Trump said Carroll had invented a “ridiculous, disgusting story.” “It’s just made up,” Trump said. The jury will see more portions of the deposition on Thursday. The Daily News previously reported on unsealed excerpts of the deposition, when Trump called Carroll a “whack job,” “nut job,” and “sick, mentally sick.” Earlier Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers said they would not present any witnesses to defend against writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim the former president brutally raped her at Bergdorf Goodman. Trump originally had two people on his witness list: himself and psychiatrist Edgar Nace, who his lawyers told the court could not make it. Trump’s legal team said Monday that he didn’t plan to take the stand. Asked by reporters in Ireland Wednesday why he was there at his golf course and not at the trial, Trump made vague reference to a “longstanding agreement,” according to video clips of the question. “I hear things are going really well in New York,” he said. Judge Lewis Kaplan told jurors they would likely begin their deliberations early next week. During the first half of Wednesday’s proceedings, jurors heard from an expert witness for Carroll, clinical psychologist Leslie Lebowitz, who testified about her extensive evaluation of Carroll. Lebowitz said she determined Carroll had suffered significantly due to the alleged assault, including experiencing unwanted intrusive thoughts. When he cross-examined Carroll last week, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina asked why she didn’t scream during the alleged assault or call the police. He also tried to pick apart her memories of when the assault occurred. Carroll has acknowledged throughout the years-long litigation that she doesn’t know exactly which year it happened between 1994 and 1996. Lebowitz said stress hormones released during a traumatic encounter can interfere with one’s instincts. She said it’s common for victims to remember intricate details about an event and forget broader ones, like forgetting how they left, where it happened, or when it happened. Lebowitz said her sit-downs with Carroll, over a course of 20 to 22 hours, determined she had diminished self-esteem due to the attack and avoidance, causing a complete shutdown of her ability to be intimate with another person. During Lebowitz’s cross-examination, Trump’s lawyer Chad Seigel drew several sustained objections for asking argumentative questions, which frustrated Judge Kaplan. The defense lawyer also peppered Lebowitz with questions about whether Carroll was diagnosed with psychiatric issues directly from the assault. Lebowitz said she hadn’t been, though she said Carroll displayed multiple symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. “[It] made her feel like she was worth less than she had been before. She felt degraded and diminished. She felt like she had been treated as if she wasn’t even a person,” Lebowitz said. Trump denies all wrongdoing. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

10-05-23, 04:15	#9
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP Sexually Abused E. Jean Carroll And Owes $5 Million In Damages, Jury Finds E Jean Carroll: Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store... BBC News 10 MAY 2023 TRUMP The Sex Attacker A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s. But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman. The jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a Hoax and a lie". It is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault. *The Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.* The jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday. "Today, the world finally knows the truth," Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. "This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed." Mr Trump's lawyer said the former president plans to appeal the decision. Because the trial was in civil court rather than criminal, Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender. The former president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court. Ms Carroll, 79, held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury. Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: "Congratulations and good luck." Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: "This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere." After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. "This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!" The standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll. While the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll. A Tense Two-Week Trial The trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys. Her legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996. They included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One woman told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a flight in the 1970s. Another woman said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him for an article she was writing in 2005. Two long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them about the encounter shortly after it occurred. On the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result. "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," she told the court. Mr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape. "It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the footage. "It's just made up." Ms Carroll's lawsuit also argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie". Her legal team argued Mr Trump had acted as a "witness against himself" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording. In the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars "do anything" to them, including grabbing their genitals. That's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued. In the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump at one point confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his claim that she was "not his type". Mr Tacopina sought to cast doubt on Ms Carroll's story, which he called "a work of fiction". He questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi. "With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi, you can't call witnesses," Mr Tacopina said. *"What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts."* Mr Tacopina also pressed her on why she did not report a crime to police or scream while it occurred. The former Elle magazine columnist was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022. The law allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations. MORE: How Republican women reacted to Trump verdict __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

10-05-23, 23:30	#10
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,569 Thanks: 27,629 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: White House Staff Told Higher-Ups About TRUMP's Sexual Harassment To Women FEMALE STAFF MAKE NEW ALLEGATIONS AGAINST TRUMP Trump White House Aides Say They Told Higher-Ups About Sexual Harassment Towards Women BBC News 11 MAY 2023 Two former Trump White House officials said Tuesday that they reported instances of what they described as the ex-president’s improper behavior toward women to other senior staffers, hours after a jury in a New York civil court found him liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin said she had seen “countless cases” of what she considers “impropriety” in the White House that she reported to Trump’s various chiefs of staff, including Mark Meadows. When Tapper specifically asked Farah if she informed Meadows or other chiefs of staff about instances she witnessed of “Donald Trump behaving inappropriately with women,” she said she did and so did former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. Grisham, whose books included examples of Trump’s alleged harassment of women in the White House, later appeared on CNN and confirmed Farah’s claims. Speaking to CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Grisham said she had spoken to several different chiefs of staff, including Meadows, about Trump’s behavior, but she thought there wasn’t much they could do other than tell him, “This isn’t good, sir.” Saying, “Donald Trump will do what Donald Trump wants to do,” Grisham reiterated Trump’s alleged lewd remarks about a specific female staffer whom she claims she had to try and protect Grisham said Trump had asked one of her deputies to bring the female staffer on his trips “so that they could look at her ass.” __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

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