E. Jean Carroll may sue Trump a third time after ‘vile’ comments on CNN Town Hall.
When former President Donald Trump was inveighing against E. Jean Carroll on CNN Wednesday night, at least one person was not watching: Carroll.
Carroll said she was infuriated when her longtime stylist told her Thursday morning that the stylist’s 15-year-old son was talking about what Trump had said on television Wednesday. In the wide-ranging interview, Carroll, accompanied by her lawyers, addressed why she believes the jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing her but not for raping her, as she had long claimed; how she felt being aggressively cross-examined by Tacopina; why she did not scream when Trump assaulted her; and the rituals she and her lawyers performed each day of the two-week trial.
Carroll, in the interview, blamed herself for their decision to find Trump liable for sexually abusing her but not for rape.Under New York law, according to Carroll’s lawyer, Kaplan, penetration by the penis must occur for there to be a rape. Carroll had testified that after Trump led her into the Bergdorf’s lingerie department and into a dressing room, he shoved her against a wall and inserted his fingers and then his penis into her vagina.
By its verdict, the jury indicated it believed Carroll. Michael Ferrara, another of Carroll’s lawyers, noted in the interview that the jurors’ handling of the case showed that the process was not rigged. “By the time I was sitting down, I was braced up. If you notice, I always wore a tight-fitting jacket just to keep myself together, you know, as sort of a little bit of armor against Joe Tacopina.”
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