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E Jean Carroll testifies in Trump trial ‘to get my reputation back’

E Jean Carroll took the witness stand on Wednesday morning in her defamation trial against Donald Trump, marking the first time she confronted the ex-president in a courtroom. “I’m here because Donald Trump assaulted me and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened,” Carroll testified. “He lied, and it shattered my reputation. […]

Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Tirade Comes Back To Bite Him Hours Later

All Tuesday morning, former President Donald Trump used social media to attack writer E. Jean Carroll. By Tuesday afternoon, it was part of the court record in her latest defamation trial against him. An attorney for Carroll, Shawn Crowley, nodded to Trump’s diatribe in her opening statements as she told a panel of New York […]

Trump ‘unleashed his followers’ on E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer tells jury

In her opening statement Tuesday, E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer Shawn Crowley tells the jury in former President Donald Trump’s second defamation trial that he “unleashed his followers to go after her” by continually denying her claim that he raped her in a department store changing room in the 1990s. Judge Lewis Kaplan tells prospective jurors […]