Donald Trump’s lawyer accuses ‘rape survivor’ Jean Carroll of falsely accusing ex-President

Donald Trump: Former President Donald Trump allegedly raped advice columnist E Jean Carroll during a chance encounter at an upmarket New York department store and then “destroyed” her career when he repeatedly lied about the claims, a civil jury in New York heard on Tuesday.

Carroll, 79, is suing Mr Trump, 76, for battery and defamation in a civil trial in a US Federal Court in Lower Manhattan, the latest in a swirl of litigation surrounding the former president as he prepares to run for the White House in 2024.

‘Carroll conspired with other women’

But Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina, said that Carroll conspired with other women to falsely accuse Trump of rape because they “hate” him for winning the 2016 election. “They schemed to hurt Donald Trump politically,” he said.

Tacopina suggested to the jury that Carroll first accused then president Trump of rape after meeting George Conway. Conway  was a vocal critic and married to Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s closest aides in the White House.

Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her in a dressing room of the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman in 1996. They ran into each other at the entrance and he asked for help in choosing a present for a friend.

‘Trump attacked Carroll’

Carroll’s lawyer, Shawn Crowley, told the jury that Trump manoeuvred her client into a dressing room and then attacked her. The lawyer said Trump banged Carroll’s head against the wall, pinned her arms back with one hand, pulled her tights down with the other and then rammed his fingers into her vagina.

Crowley said that Carroll kicked Trump and tried to knee him off but he was too strong for her.

“He removed his hand and forced his penis inside her,” the lawyer told the jury.

Pertinent questions

Crowley addressed what she said would be two of the biggest questions on the jurors minds. Why did Carroll go into the dressing room with Trump? And why didn’t she report the alleged rape to the police at the time?

The lawyer said that when Trump suggested Carroll try on a see-through bodysuit, she pushed it back at him and said he should be the one to try it on as it was his colour. Trump then took her by the arm and led Carroll to the dressing room.

‘Didn’t see Trump as a threat’

“To her, the situation was harmless and funny,” said Crowley. “The truth is she didn’t see Trump as a threat.”

Crowley said that Carroll did tell two friends after the assault. One advised her to go to the police. The other said to keep quiet because Trump was a powerful man. Crowley said that Carroll was “filled with fear and shame” that kept her silent for decades.

“In her mind, for many years, she thought what happened to her was her fault,” Crowley told the jury.

When Carroll did decide to speak out after Trump’s election in 2016 and with the rise of the #MeToo movement, she faced a barrage of “vicious attacks” by the president.

Tacopina questioned Carroll’s version of why she did not call the police. “E Jean Carroll once called the police on teenagers who vandalised her mailbox but not when she was violently raped,” he told the jury.

The trial continues.

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