![]() Kaplan told jurors that it wasn’t a “he said, she said” case but rather one in which jurors should weigh what 11 witnesses, including Carroll, said versus what they heard from Trump in his video deposition. In a rebuttal argument, Carroll attorney Mike Ferrara mocked Trump’s decision to skip the trial, saying jurors could use his absence to conclude that Trump committed the attack because Trump “never looked you in the eye and denied it.” “What could I have asked Donald Trump? Where were you on some unknown date, 27 or 28 years ago?” he said. Tacopina said the allegations were too absurd to call his client as a witness, noting that Carroll expected jurors to believe Trump would risk everything to attack a woman in a busy department store even though she couldn’t remember exactly when the assault happened. “What is the likelihood of that?” Tacopina asked. ![]() ![]() “This is an absolutely outrageous case,” he said, claiming that Carroll sued to raise her status and for political reasons.Īnd he noted that even Carroll had testified that it was an “astonishing coincidence” that a “Law and Order” offshoot aired an episode in 2012 in which a woman is raped in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman. Tacopina told jurors they won’t have to “let her profit to the tune of millions of dollars” because they will see that it is impossible to believe the “unbelievable.” He agreed with Kaplan that no one is above the law, but he warned that “no one’s below it.” Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, attacked the allegations as absurd, saying they were an “affront to justice” and minimized “real rape victims.” The former president calls the civil trial a “Witch Hunt.” Jean Carroll tells a jury that Donald Trump raped her in a department store fitting room in 1996. World & Nation ‘Donald Trump raped me,’ writer tells jury in lawsuit trialĮ.
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