The advice columnist denied that politics or book sales motivated her to make the accusation against Donald Trump
On the third day of Carroll’s civil suit against the former president for battery and defamation, Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, put it to her that she made her allegation the centrepiece of a book proposal she was trying to sell.changing room in the mid-1990s and for defamation after Trump accused her of lying when she went public with her accusations in the book.
But she did acknowledge that she decided to sue Trump for defamation following a conversation at a party with George Conway, then the husband of one of Trump’s top White House aides, Kellyanne Conway, but also a prominent Trump critic.Asked why she did not speak up when Trump was running for president in 2016, Carroll said it did not occur to her.
“If a man tells me to try on some lingerie, I tell him to go try it on,” she said. “I had no concept of how this would turn out. I thought this funny conversation would continue.”“Laughter is a very good weapon to calm a man down if he has any erotic intention,” she said.“I was in too much of a panic to scream,” she responded. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.”
Tacopina continued to press the issue, including what he said were differing accounts Carroll had given over the years for not screaming including that she “isn’t a screamer”, that she didn’t want to make a scene and that she was too full of adrenaline.“I’m telling you he raped me whether I screamed or not,” she said, her voice breaking.
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