E. Jean Carroll battery and defamation trial against Donald Trump begins: What to know
Posted on AllSides April 25th, 2023
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The civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday.
Carroll alleges Trump forcibly raped and groped her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid 1990’s. Trump denies the charges and has said Carroll is “not my type.”
Unlike his dramatic courtroom appearance in New York state court earlier this month, Trump is unlikely to appear in the Manhattan federal courtroom, his lawyers have said, unless he is called to testify in Carroll’s case or opts to...