The 'Access Hollywood' tape that captured former President Trump saying he can grope women without waiting for their consent can be used as evidence in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against him, a federal judge rules.
Eva Deitch for The Washington Post via Getty Images fileThe notorious"Access Hollywood" tape that captured Donald Trump saying he can grope women without their consent can be used as evidence in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against the former president, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Trump's attorneys argued in court filings the tape is “irrelevant and highly prejudicial,” and does “not even tangentially relate to the core of [Carroll’s] claim” that Trump raped her in the changing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and then lied about his actions when Carroll went public with her accusation.
The judge noted there is an exception, however, saying"'evidence that the [defendant] committed any other sexual assault' may be admitted in 'a civil case involving a claim for relief based on a party's alleged sexual assault,'" and he concluded that was the case here. The judge noted that Trump has dismissed his comments in the tape as"locker room talk" and might be able to make other arguments about what he was saying as well, but at this point"a jury could reasonably find" that"Trump admitted in the Access Hollywood tape that he has in fact had contact with women's genitalia in the past without their consent, or that he has attempted to do so.
The judge used the same rationale to say he would also allow testimony from two other women who say Trump sexually assaulted them,
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