E. Jean Carroll, a writer accusing Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, pushed back during a cross-examination, saying: ‘He raped me whether I screamed or not’
NEW YORK, April 27 - E. Jean Carroll, a writer accusing Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, pushed back during a cross-examination on Thursday, exclaiming: "He raped me whether I screamed or not."
"People always ask, 'Why didn’t you scream?' It keeps women silent," Carroll told the lawyer, Joe Tacopina, on the third day of a trial in her civil case against the former U.S. president in Manhattan federal court. Carroll, 79, said she felt compelled to go public after rape allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017 prompted many other women to share their accounts of sexual abuse."Woman after woman stood up," Carroll said before her six-man, three-woman jury. "I thought, well, this may be a way to change the culture of sexual violence."
Tacopina pressed Carroll on her inability to remember exactly when the encounter happened, and suggested she made up the story to generate publicity for the memoir, "What Do We Need Men For?"
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