A video display provides testimony from former US president Donald Trump in court during a civil trial, where former Elle magazine consultant commentator Jean Carroll accused the former US president in a civil suit for raping her in the locker room of a department store in the mid-1990s and defamation, in New York, USA, May 4, 2023 in courtroom sketches This.
Jane Rosenberg | Reuters
A federal judge on Tuesday gave jurors final instructions before they begin deliberations in civil trial. testing where the former president Donald Trump accused of raping and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Judge Lewis Kaplan also jury the form of judgment it will use during the discussion in United States District Court in Manhattan. If jurors determine that Carroll has substantiated either of her claims, they will decide whether to award her monetary damages.
Carroll, 79, alleges in a lawsuit that Trump sexual assault her in the locker room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. She also claims that he defamed her last fall when he said she made up the account. Trump called the allegations “a complete hoax” and said she was not his “type of person”.
Trump, who leads early polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, did not testify during the trial.
But portions of his statement made by Carroll’s attorney last fall were distributed to jurors during the trial and during arguments that ended Monday.
Carroll stood as a witness. Two women testified that she told them shortly after the alleged incident that Trump raped her as well.
Two other women testified that Trump kissed and groped them without their consent in incidents that occurred years apart.
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