Witnesses in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape and defamation accused the former president of assaulting them, too, as they testified.
Carroll, a notable columnist, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump consistently denied the allegations, which resulted in Carroll moving to file a defamation suit against Trump on the stance that his repeated denial damaged her reputation as a writer.Accusations against Trump came to light in 2019, and the trial began last month.
Over two dozen women have accused Trump of sexual assault, and two of them testified in the trial, according to Politico. Jessica Leeds, an 81-year-old former businesswoman from North Carolina, testified on Tuesday at the civil trial that Trump groped her chest and put his hand up her skirt on a flight to New York.
“I knew that I wasn't going to tell anybody ever again about this. Lisa shocked me in the call,” Carroll said in her testimony from October 2022, which can be read in full here. “She told me I had been raped.” Robert Salerno, a former executive with the department store, said he did not think there were security cameras installed on the sixth floor, where the assault allegedly took place.
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