NEW YORK — A former People magazine writer, testifying in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump, told the jury that Trump pushed her against a wall and began kissing her while she was visiting his Mar-a-Lago estate on assignment in 2005.
Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations"a Hoax and a lie" and saying"This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
Stoynoff said she had interviewed Trump on a number of occasions as part of her assignment on the"Trump beat" for People. She testified that Trump asked her into the room while Melania was changing clothes in preparation for their interview outside. Stoynoff described herself as"ashamed and humiliated at what had happened," and testified said nothing about it to her bosses at People because she didn't want to cause trouble at the magazine.
On cross-examination, Trump attorney Joe Tacopina asked Stoynofff if she had a legal claim against Trump. She said no. Tacopina told the judge that he had decided not to call an expert witness that had been expected to testify for the defense."We're not going to move forward," Tacopina said. On cross-examination, the younger Carroll testified that she and Carroll had a close relationship in the 1990s when the alleged rape occurred.
The defense suggested the fact that Carroll continued to shop at Bergdorf's, saved the dress she wore the evening of the alleged assault, and watched Trump's reality television show,"The Apprentice," were behaviors out of step with the deep trauma Carroll said she suffered.
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