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May 8, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Now: Attorney Roberta Kaplan is delivering closing args in the Carroll v Trump
She argues Trump told on himself in two parts
1) Mistaking Carroll for his wife: “E. Jean Carroll, a former cheerleader and Miss Indiana, was exactly Donald Trump’s type.”
2) His words in the Access Hollywood tape, which Kaplan says prove the alleged attack was his MO: “He pushed her up against a wall, he started kissing her, he didn’t wait. He grabbed her — using his words — by the pussy.”
May 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
E. Jean Carroll cross examination continues this morning with Qs about her shopping at Bergdorf's in the years after Trump allegedly raped her in a fitting room at the store
Carroll: “I made that clear, that Bergdorf’s is not a place that I’m afraid to enter” @CourthouseNews@CourthouseNews Judge Kaplan began the day by denying Trump's motion for a mistrial, filed this morning
Back in Manhattan federal court for the civil rape trial against Donald Trump ~ E. Jean Carroll is still on the stand, starts by addressing a few points Trump's team has focused on thus far⤵️
1) The CNN interview where she says “I think most people think of rape as being sexy.”
“I meant that rape is used in our culture in entertainment. For instance, in Game of Thrones, there are nine violent rapes, and they were used as plot developments.”
Apr 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It's been nearly four years since @ejeancarroll publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. In a few minutes she'll take the stand to tell her story in federal court @CourthouseNews@ejeancarroll@CourthouseNews Carroll: “Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation and I’m here to try to get my life back.”
