'I'm telling you — he raped me — whether I screamed or not,' Carroll said with emotion in her raised voice. 'I don't need an excuse for not screaming.'
Author E. Jean Carroll testified Thursday that she was inspired in 2017 by the "Me Too" movement to come forward with her allegation that former President Donald TrumpCarroll was on the stand for the second day, being cross-examined by an attorney for Trump, Joe Tacopina.
Tacopina asked about an email thread in which Carroll and a friend derided Trump and referred to getting together to "scheme" and do their "patriotic duty." Carroll said she and the friend, Carol Martin, talk to each other like that. "I'm telling you — he raped me — whether I screamed or not," Carroll said with emotion in her raised voice. "I don't need an excuse for not screaming."She admits now that she wished she had screamed because she thinks more people would've believed her. Tacopina asked why she wouldn't have screamed for help.
Carroll began testifying Wednesday at the trial stemming from her defamation and battery lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that he raped her in the mid-1990s. She told the court, "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen. He shattered my reputation."Carroll, an advice columnist, has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman store in either 1995 or 1996.
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