Trump is being accused of rape by a writer

Defending Donald Trump in the High-Energy Scenarios of Sexual Sexual Abuse and Abusive Crimes

The measure passed, and shortly after midnight on Nov. 24, when it took effect, Ms. Carroll sued Mr. Trump. After years of accusations and angry denials, a jury will be tasked with determining the truth in that case, which will be heard in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

There are a lot of legal cases aimed at Donald Trump, who is running for the presidency, and he argues that the suits are meant to drag him down. It comes just weeks after Mr. Trump’s appearance in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he pleaded not guilty to fraud charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and a recent appearance in Manhattan where he was questioned under oath in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by Attorney General Letitia James of New York.

News coverage was dominated by his case. The judge in the case of Ms. Carroll ordered that jurors be kept anonymous, as a result of his past attacks on judges, law enforcement officials and even individual jurors.

Some of the people who could be put in charge of helping their client’s claims, including Bergdorf Goodman staffers and two friends of his who have publicly claimed that Donald Trump sexually assaulted them, are mentioned in the above quote.

In the case, Trump is accused of battery and defamation. Trump has not gone to trial in relation to the defamation suit that Carroll has.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that Carroll’s nearly 30-year old claims cannot be proved, and that Carroll was motivated by the potential for book sales and publicity.

The second suit was filed in New York in November of 2022, under the Adult Survivors Act, which made it possible for sexual assault victims to file civil claims decades after the fact. The second suit contains a defamation claim. The claim was filed after the fact that Trump was no longer president.

Trump’s accusers, as well as the friends and the former Bergdorf’s staffers, will be called to testify. They will also present excerpts from the “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump boasts about his sexual conquests, in vulgar terms.

Tacopina is not saying whether Trump will take the stand in his defense; if he does not, then the defense team has only one witness, Dr. Edgar Nace, a psychiatrist.

Carroll is asking for unspecified damages, and demanding that Trump retract an allegedly defamatory statement about her. The damage could be tens of millions of dollars.

To many women, Mr. Trump has come to represent male sexual entitlement. I heard this repeatedly as I researched my book about why accusers are often doubted. The woman I spoke with, who has written about sexual assault and harassment in the wine industry, explained that she is not surprised that a video of Mr. Trump brags about sex with prostitutes was released during the 2016 presidential campaign. You can do anything,” including “grab” women’s genitals. When she heard the tape, Ms. Ross told me, “I didn’t just hear Donald Trump. I know every man who has hurt me. It was those boys in high school, it was my ex-boyfriend, it was all those men. It was not just hearing Trump for me and many other survivors. Everyone that violated me.

The credibility discount is something that can be surmounted by bolstering the testimony of a rape accuser. Like most accusers, Ms. Carroll will need to overcome formidable barriers to belief. Even in a civil case like this, where the evidentiary standard of proof is much lower than in a criminal prosecution, accusers confront an uphill battle.

The jury is anonymous due to security reasons. The six men and three women will be known only by numbers assigned to them, and will arrive and leave every day by car, and be let out at undisclosed drop-off points.

Tacopina’s defense of the grand jury investigation of the 2004 tape “Locker Room Talk” by Donald J. Crowley

At the time it was released, Trump dismissed the tape as “locker room talk,” And Trump attorney Tacopina told jurors that’s what it was: “it’s not an admission of anything certainly,” he said.

While Crowley kept a calm demeanor as she laid out Carroll’s claims, Tacopina at times appeared to be genuinely angry, his hands gripping the lectern and his voice rising.