(8 May 2023)
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New York - 8 May 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press:
“Closing arguments in Manhattan Federal court occurred today, clearing the way for the jury to be charged tomorrow and begin deliberating over E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit claiming that Donald Trump raped the columnist inside a Bergdorf Goodman store in 1996.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press:
“She (referring to Carroll) says that he raped her inside a dressing room in the lingerie section where he had taken her to help her find him a gift to get for a woman that he knew.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press:
“She (referring to Carroll) had testified for three days during the trial. Today, during closing arguments, her lawyer says that the 11 witnesses they called made it clear that the attack happened. And she noted that Donald Trump never came to the courtroom to refute it. When Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, came before the jury, he said that E. Jean Carroll’s claims were absurd, that Donald Trump never would have risked his entire career by sexually attacking a woman in a dressing room of a major Manhattan department store across the street from Trump Tower, where he lived at the time.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press:
“He (referring to Tacopina) told jurors they would have ‘to believe the unbelievable’ to believe this attack ever happened. Now, Roberta Kaplan, arguing for E. Jean Carroll, pulled up clips of a video in which Donald Trump in 2005 was overheard saying that when you're a celebrity, you can grab women and sexually attack them whenever you please without asking their permission.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press:
“Deliberations are supposed to occur after they hear the reading on the law at 10 a.m. The judge, Lewis Kaplan, says the reading on the law will take about an hour and then the jury will start deliberations. They'll be deciding civil charges, which means they'll decide whether the claims of battery and defamation are to be believed. And if they believe them and agree unanimously, nine of them, that there's a preponderance of the evidence that finds that it is so, then they can return a finding of damages for both compensatory and punitive.”
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STORYLINE:
Donald Trump's defense lawyer told jurors in New York City that they would have to believe the unbelievable to accept a columnist's claims that the former president sexually attacked her in a department store in 1996.
Attorney Joe Tacopina urged jurors during closing arguments in the Manhattan federal court civil trial to reject writer E. Jean Carroll's claims. Her attorneys say they have proven that the attack occurred. They criticized Trump for never attending the trial or taking the witness stand.
During the two-week trial, jurors saw a deposition in which Trump said Carroll made up the claims to boost sales of a 2019 memoir.
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