“Three different women, decades apart…but one single pattern of behavior,” E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday. “In that respect, what happened to E. Jean Carroll is not unique.”
E. Jean Carroll“Does that make any sense at all?” she added in her closing remarks in the civil trial against the former president. Carroll, the longtimecolumnist and magazine writer, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-’90s in aKaplan was posing a question that’s occupied much of the nation’s political attention in the years that have followed.
During her closing argument, Kaplan showed a chart of Carroll’s allegations alongside those of two other women,who testified in the trial. Their accusations of sexual assault, all of which Trump has denied, shared common elements: “Semi-Public Place,” “Grab Suddenly,” and “Not My Type.” “Three different women, decades apart…but one single pattern of behavior,” Kaplan said. “In that respect, what happened to E. Jean Carroll is not unique.”
Carroll sued Trump in November after the passage of a New York law that granted a one-year window for adult sexual abuse victims to bring lawsuits against their alleged abusers after the statute of limitations has expired. Carroll has written about her initial allegation in 2019 and her experience of the blowback that followed when Trump denied her claim.
The proceedings in the case often amounted to a more detailed explication of the consequences she’s felt, as well as an examination of the kind of comments Trump has made so often throughout his six or so decades in the public eye that they tend to get taken for granted—including his most infamous. In her closing remarks on Monday, Kaplan had invoked thevideo, shot in 2005 and leaked in 2016, weeks before Trump’s victory in the presidential race.
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