Natasha Stoynoff became the third woman to state under oath that the former president assaulted her during the civil trial involving E. Jean Carroll.
, in which Trump can be heard boasting about grabbing women"by the p****," was released just ahead of the 2016 election.
During cross-examination, Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina put forward one question to Stoynoff. He asked whether she was involved in any litigation against Trump. She replied no. The former president's lawyer appeared to suggest to the jury that as she did not go to police or file a lawsuit herself over the alleged incident, it may not have occurred and that her testimony was not relevant to Carroll's case.
"And no allegation she's in cahoots w/ Carroll. In some ways, most searing story of all, complete w/ Butler coming in as if nothing's happening," he wrote.legal analyst Lisa Rubin also suggested that Stoynoff's testimony was so"powerful" that Tacopina only asked one question in an attempt to show the jury that"her story may be compelling, but it's largely irrelevant.
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