Closing arguments underway in Trump's defamation, battery trial
E. Jean Carroll "was exactly" Donald Trump's type, an attorney for Carroll said Monday during a closing statement at his defamation and battery trial.Donald Trump should be held accountable for sexually attacking an advice columnist in 1996 because even a former president is not above the law, a lawyer for the columnist told a jury Monday in closing arguments in the lawsuit that accuses Trump of rape.
Kaplan used Trump's words to support Carroll's claims that Trump raped her in early spring 1996 in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store across the street from Trump Tower. And he said even Carroll had testified that it was an "astonishing coincidence" that a "Law and Order" offshoot aired an episode in 2012 in which a woman is raped in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman.Kaplan told jurors that it wasn't a "he said, she said" case but rather one in which jurors should weigh what 11 witnesses, including Carroll, said versus what they heard from Trump in his video deposition.
Trump has insisted in public statements and in the deposition that Carroll made up the claims to boost sales of a 2019 memoir. He has called Carroll "mentally sick" and a "disgrace." Carroll said she was leaving the Bergdorf Goodman store through a revolving door in spring 1996 when Trump was entering the store and stopped her to help him shop for a gift for a woman.
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