NY – Ex POTUS Donald Trump, sued by E. Jean Carroll, DT found liable re sexual assault, $5M award, countersuit dismissed, appeal rejected, 2023

[JennieM]

E Jean Carroll expected to face tough cross-examination in Trump rape trial​

E Jean Carroll says she came to court ‘because Trump raped me and said it didn’t happen’

Advice columnist, 79, details social media attacks in wake of rape allegation but tells jurors ‘I couldn’t be more proud to be here’

www.theguardian.com

 

[TootsieFootsie]

What a brave woman.

 

[SouthAussie]

E Jean Carroll expected to face tough cross-examination in Trump rape trial​

E Jean Carroll says she came to court ‘because Trump raped me and said it didn’t happen’

Advice columnist, 79, details social media attacks in wake of rape allegation but tells jurors ‘I couldn’t be more proud to be here’

www.theguardian.com

Hoping that she is heartened by her supporters, and that helps her to maintain her incredible strength.
I can see them supporting her outside the courthouse.



Trump news – latest: E Jean Carroll retakes stand at rape trial as Trump fails to stop Pence Jan 6 testimony

 

[MrsWatson]

I was trying to find an article E.Jean Carroll had written years ago about a murder/suicide that personally affected her. I can't find that exact article, but this gives a bit of background, and some information about her career. True confessions, I subscribed to Elle for years and read her column regularly among her other works. She's a very good journalist and a gifted writer, imo.

ETA: The article includes an excerpt from the article I was originally hunting. And it was a series of tragic deaths all interconnected.

E. Jean Carroll's 'The Cheerleaders' - NeoText

Alex Belth introduces E. Jean Carroll's 'The Cheerleaders', a true story about a five-year string of murders, accidents and suicides in a small New York town.

neotextcorp.com

 

[JerseyGirl]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

Tweets from The Washington Post:

E. Jean Carroll has now taken the witness stand for a day of testimony that will probably include cross-examination by Donald Trump’s lawyers.

E. Jean Carroll’s testimony was delayed apparently because the attorneys and judge were having a conference about an evidence issue.

The testimony began with questions on direct examination about another sexual assault that E. Jean Carroll alleged in her 2019 memoir. She says it was committed by Les Moonves, the disgraced former media executive whom other women had accused of sexual misconduct. Moonves has denied the allegation.

E. Jean Carroll is being asked about her interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2019. In a deposition for this lawsuit, Trump twisted statements Carroll made to CNN to mean that she enjoyed rape and thought it was “sexy.” “I think she’s sick. Mentally sick,” Trump said in that deposition. Defense attorneys are expected to focus on this interview.

Attorney Michael Ferrara asked questions to clarify E. Jean Carroll’s CNN comment suggesting rape was a fetish for “most people.”
“Do you believe rape is sexy?” Ferrara asked on direct-examination.
“No,” Carroll said. “I think rape is one of the most violent and horrible things that can happen to a woman or a man.”

 

[Stunned]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

Tweets from The Washington Post:

E. Jean Carroll has now taken the witness stand for a day of testimony that will probably include cross-examination by Donald Trump’s lawyers.

E. Jean Carroll’s testimony was delayed apparently because the attorneys and judge were having a conference about an evidence issue.

The testimony began with questions on direct examination about another sexual assault that E. Jean Carroll alleged in her 2019 memoir. She says it was committed by Les Moonves, the disgraced former media executive whom other women had accused of sexual misconduct. Moonves has denied the allegation.

E. Jean Carroll is being asked about her interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2019. In a deposition for this lawsuit, Trump twisted statements Carroll made to CNN to mean that she enjoyed rape and thought it was “sexy.” “I think she’s sick. Mentally sick,” Trump said in that deposition. Defense attorneys are expected to focus on this interview.

Attorney Michael Ferrara asked questions to clarify E. Jean Carroll’s CNN comment suggesting rape was a fetish for “most people.”
“Do you believe rape is sexy?” Ferrara asked on direct-examination.
“No,” Carroll said. “I think rape is one of the most violent and horrible things that can happen to a woman or a man.”

How does ANYONE even ask a woman that? How does he even find these lawyers? At his club? They appall me! IMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

There's going to be no low that is too low to go there.

 

[SouthAussie]

How does ANYONE even ask a woman that? How does he even find these lawyers? At his club? They appall me! IMO

If you mean “Do you believe rape is sexy?”, the attorney who asked her that (Ferrara) is her attorney. I think he was trying to get that out there before cross examination begins. Because DT accused her of thinking that - DT misconstrued her words from an interview.

The Washington Post 17 mins ago said that cross examination was due to start in 15 mins, after a short break. I imagine it is just starting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

ETA: The last thing E Jean Carroll said before that direct examination ended was that following DT's public comments she has received a of unsettling social media comments, she looked at her Twitter this morning and the comments haven't stopped.

 

[SouthAussie]

There's going to be no low that is too low to go there.

4 mins ago, cross examination has started. According to the Washington Post.

I think here comes the lowest low. Unless Judge Kaplan can keep Tacopina reined in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

 

[Stunned]

If you mean “Do you believe rape is sexy?”, the attorney who asked her that (Ferrara) is her attorney. I think he was trying to get that out there before cross examination begins. Because DT accused her of thinking that - DT misconstrued her words from an interview.

The Washington Post 17 mins ago said that cross examination was due to start in 15 mins, after a short break. I imagine it is just starting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

ETA: The last thing E Jean Carroll said before that direct examination ended was that following DT's public comments she has received a of unsettling social media comments, she looked at her Twitter this morning and the comments haven't stopped.

My bad! That jumped out and nothing else. Sorry for my misplaced rage.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

My bad! That jumped out and nothing else. Sorry for my misplaced rage.

And mine.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Direct-examination of Carroll ended Thursday morning after she said Trump’s public statements touched off a of unsettling social media comments about her that continue to this day. “I looked at my Twitter this morning,” she said. “They haven’t stopped.




Trump attorney Joe Tacopina has started his cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll.

The first interaction between Trump attorney Joe Tacopina and E. Jean Carroll was awkward. Tacopina said, “Good morning,” and Carroll sheepishly nodded. Tacopina said, “Good morning,” again and paused for a response. “There you go,” he quipped when Carroll parroted his greeting. The first line of questioning is about her 2019 book.

Donald Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina asked E. Jean Carroll about an unpublished excerpt from an early draft of her 2019 book. Referring to Trump, she wrote: “I’ve become persuaded that he wants to kill me … as he stacks the courts, my rights over my body are being taken away … I’m afraid that my right to free speech will go next.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Tacopina said, “Good morning,” again and paused for a response. “There you go,” he quipped when Carroll parroted his greeting.

Very rude and patronising.

 

[Jade]

Very rude and patronising.

I’m surprised he didn’t add “smile” for complete smarminess.

 

[MrsWatson]

Trivia: Lisa Birnbach, another writer, witness and friend of E.Jean Carroll is the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, among other things.

I knew her name was familiar.

 

[crussell821]

Very rude and patronising.

Wow! Like she’s a school girl who didn’t respond to her teacher.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Trump attorney Joe Tacopina brought up an email E. Jean Carroll had sent in which she included a link about Donald Trump and remarked: “When we’re both well enough to scheme, we must do our patriotic duty again.” The defense hopes to use this email to bolster the theory that Carroll and two of her friends have concocted a false story about Trump. The friends are expected to testify that Carroll told them around the time of the alleged attack that Trump had sexually assaulted her at Bergdorf Goodman.

From the outset, Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina has tried to chip away at the credibility of accuser E. Jean Carroll. He brought up her politics (she voted for Democrats) and her unpublished writing (“I’ve become persuaded that he wants to kill me,” she once wrote of Trump).
Now, Tacopina is focusing on a detail about the alleged assault at the center of Carroll’s lawsuit. Carroll has said the assault took place inside a Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale department store in Manhattan.
But when?
Tacopina is focusing on the fact that Carroll cannot identify a specific date of the alleged rape.
After not being able to commit to a year in the mid-1990s, Carroll now believes it was the spring of 1996, based on the timing of a Trump piece published in New York magazine by her friend and an outcry witness, Lisa Birnbach.
Birnbach, who is expected to testify in this trial, told Carroll she is firm on the timing because she went to Mar-a-Lago to report for the piece. “She swears up and down that she would never go if she had heard about what Trump did to me at Bergdorf’s,” Carroll testified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

 

[sds71]

@KlasfeldReports


Tacopina pivots to Carroll's book: "What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal," saying it proposes disposing of all men. Carroll begins to spell out the literary reference, when Judge Kaplan interjects.

"It comes from Jonathan Swift: 'A Modest Proposal."


Anyone who has ever appeared in Kaplan's court will not be surprised he piped up about a literary reference.

 

[ilovewings]

Why did she wait so many years to allege rape?
I cases like this I always wonder why someone waits 25 or 30
Years?

 

[JerseyGirl]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial/

On cross-examination E. Jean Carroll said that she was inspired to finally come forward and publicly accuse Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s after a flood of sexual assault allegations were openly lodged years later against Harvey Weinstein, the former film producer.

Weinstein is now in prison after two criminal sexual assault convictions, and his victims who shared their stories with the New York Times and the New Yorker in 2018 are widely credited for inspiring countless other victims to step forward in the #MeToo movement.

Carroll, 79, said she was “flummoxed” by the outpouring of women going public with sexual misconduct stories against prominent men.

In her testimony, she said she recalled thinking to herself: “Can we actually speak up and not be pummeled?”

“Woman after woman stood up,” she said. “I thought, well, this may be a way to change the culture of sexual violence. … I thought we can actually change things if we all tell our stories.”

She testified that she did not report her assault to the police at any point before #MeToo because it was those women, going public, who inspired her to do the same.

Carroll said, “It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work.”