NEW YORK: E Jean Carroll, the writer accusing Donald Trump of rape and defamation, on Monday (May 1) denied making up her claims to drive publicity for her memoir. Testifying
, on Monday denied making up her claims to drive publicity for her memoir.
Carroll also resisted efforts by Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina to show she experienced no suffering because, as Trump has claimed, the rape did not happen. "In this courtroom, I'm being forced to tell the truth," she told Tacopina on her third and final day of testimony, including two under cross-examination.
Her defamation claim concerns an October 2022 post on Trump's Truth Social platform, where Trump called the former Elle magazine advice columnist's case a"complete con job" and"a Hoax and a lie".The rape claim was included in her memoir, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, excerpts of which were published in New York magazine in June 2019.
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