Carroll, a columnist known to keep a diary, did not document the account in her personal diary, Tacopina added. On Tuesday, Tacopina walked through Carroll’s alleged account line by line, questioning the plausibility of some details and mocking it at times.Ĭarroll “did not produce any objective evidence to back up her claim because it didn’t happen,” the attorney said. “It’s foolish, but it is locker room talk,” Tacopina said. Trump’s attorney acknowledged the Access Hollywood tape was foolish but not an admission.
Carroll and other women,” Crowley said in court Tuesday. “This is not locker room talk, it’s exactly what he did to Ms. Trump has previously said his language on the tape was “locker room talk” not based in truth. Carroll to other women,” Carroll’s attorney said. “You’ll hear him bragging about doing almost the same thing he did to Ms. The jury will see the “Access Hollywood” tape that captured Trump graphically describing how he would use his stardom to aggressively come on to women, Carroll’s attorney said. Nothing else in this courtroom matters,” he said. “It all comes down to do you believe the unbelievable. Tacopina asked the jury to focus on the matter at hand and called Carroll’s account vague and inconsistent. Jean Carroll story because it is so incredible and so unbelievable.” But they want you to focus on anything but the E. Because that would require a real investigation. No one has ever told the police, including Ms. “That’s not for you to decide here,” Tacopina said. Tacopina told the jury they’re not there to consider the accounts of those two women.
#Trump psychotic break trial
“They schemed to hurt Donald Trump politically,” Trump’s attorney said trial evidence will show. Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina said during his opening statement Carroll conspired against the former president with the two women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, because they hate him politically. They’ll testify that they personally saw Trump shop at Bergdorf Goodman several times during that time period, a fact Trump has previously contested. Jurors won’t have to base their decision solely on Carroll’s testimony, the attorney said, because two friends to Carroll will corroborate her account and two former Bergdorf Goodman employees who worked at the store in 1996 will corroborate details of Carroll’s account. “How could she tell the world that she had been dumb enough to go into a dressing room with Donald Trump,” Carroll thought to herself, according to her attorney.Īt the time Carroll didn’t view Trump as dangerous, but a “character” and “a man about town,” Crowley said. “She will testify about her traumatic encounter with Donald Trump, about her decision to stay silent so long, and about how when she finally did speak publicly, Donald Trump responded with vicious lies meant to destroy her.”Ĭarroll will candidly acknowledge the shame she felt about the alleged assault and her decision not to come forward sooner. “You, of course, are going to hear from Ms. The first witness is expected to be Cheryl Beal, who worked at Bergdorf Goodman, the source said. A jury was seated Tuesday and the first witnesses will appear beginning Wednesday.Ĭarroll is expected to testify Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Jean Carroll battery and defamation trial against Donald Trump begins: What to knowĬarroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations.
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