The former president’s rape trial moved into a pivotal phase on Tuesday, as jurors heard from a former businesswoman who reinforced E. Jean Carroll’s rape story.
The former president’s rape trial moved into a pivotal phase on Tuesday, as jurors heard from a former businesswoman who reinforced E. Jean Carroll’s rape story—by testifying that Donald Trump shoved his hand up her skirt during a cross-country flight.
to deny it ever happened—was used to bolster Carroll’s claims, which now threaten to harm Trump’s image and empty his bank accounts. On the witness stand, Leeds said she didn’t even know who Trump was when a flight stewardess snatched her from the back of the plane and told her she had an invitation up in first class.
Earlier in the trial, Trump’s lawyers made much of the fact that Carroll didn’t scream during her alleged attack at Bergdorf Goodman. On Tuesday, her lawyers seized an opportunity to remind the jury of how brutish that expectation is, with attorney Michael Ferrara asking Leeds to explain her silence that day.
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