At the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of E. Jean Carroll’s claims that Donald Trump raped her nearly 30 years ago, then defamed her after she went public about it in 2019, a journalist friend of Carroll’s has corroborated a key part of her account. Lisa Birnbach, a writer based in New York, told the jury on Tuesday that Carroll called her to report that she’d been sexually assaulted by the real-estate magnate at a high-end midtown department store, five to seven minutes after the incident allegedly occurred.
Meantime, at the close of Tuesday’s session, to the surprise of no one, Trump’s lawyers advised Judge Lewis Kaplan that Trump will not be testifying at the trial. The former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination has not attended the proceedings and is not expected to — indeed, he was in Scotland Monday breaking ground on a new Trump golf course.
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