Donald Trump‘s asked for a mistrial as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial enters its second week. Joe Tacopina filed the request early Monday morning, arguing that Judge Lewis Kaplan has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against the former president. Judge Kaplan rejected the request later on Monday. Tacopina …
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E. Jean Carroll was steadfast in the face of cross-examination from Donald Trump’s attorneys during the second day of testimony in her civil trial against the former president on Thursday. “You were supposedly raped?” asked Joe Tacopina, one of Trump’s lawyers. “Not ‘supposedly,’” Carroll responded. “I was raped.” “Those are …
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“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me.” That’s how E. Jean Carroll opened her testimony on Wednesday against Donald Trump in Manhattan Federal Court, according to the Associated Press. She continued, “When I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here …
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Donald Trump’s legal team says the saturation press coverage of his criminal case against him in Manhattan means he can’t get a fair trial in the defamation case against him filed by E. Jean Carroll — at least for now. But attorneys for Carroll say that the former president is …
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A federal judge denied President Trump’s request for a summary judgment against writer E. Jean Carroll’s claim of defamation against him. In his Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan gave a written lashing to the former President’s legal arguments. Carroll has brought forth two lawsuits against Trump, including a …
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A federal judge has ruled that notorious Access Hollywood tape, in which former President Donald Trump brags about groping women, can be admitted as evidence in the civil rape lawsuit brought against him by author E. Jean Carroll. “In this case, a jury reasonably could find […] that Mr. Trump …
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Former President Donald Trump confused author E. Jean Carroll with his second wife Marla Maples during a deposition for the sexual assault case Carroll brought against Trump. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump, who has long insisted Carroll is not his “type,” mistook his accuser for his …
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Former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll filed an upgraded lawsuit against former PresidentDonald Trumpon Thanksgiving, the first day of New York’s new Adult Survivors Act, the Associated Press reports. The one-year lookback window enables survivors of sexual offenses that occurred when they were over the age of 18 to sue …
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In 2019, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in a department-store fitting room in the 1990s. Trump vehemently denied the allegation and called her a liar, prompting Carroll, a former magazine writer, to sue him for defamation. The case has been ongoing, and Trump has long been …
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Writer E. Jean Carroll will file a new lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, according to a letter made public on Tuesday. Carroll, who previously sued Trump for defamation in 2019, plans to take advantage of a new law passed in New York that gives adult sexual assault victims a …
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