“In other words, ‘she wasn’t attractive enough for me to sexually assault,’” said Kaplan.īut the lawyer noted that at one point Trump mistook a photograph of Carroll for his second wife, Marla Maples, who, Kaplan said, “was exactly his type”. The lawyer pointed to Trump’s claim that Carroll wasn’t his “type”. “In a very real sense, Donald Trump is a witness against himself,” she said. Kaplan said Trump’s own words demonstrate his guilt. Kaplan said the evidence showed that Carroll was not a random victim of an attack by Trump but one of a series of women who fell victim to his “modus operandi” of charming and then assaulting them. “You must hold him to account in this court for what he has done.” “No one, not even a former president, is above the law,” she said. Kaplan told the jury that Trump must face justice. One woman wearing a shirt with the slogan “Arrest Trump” was barred from entering. The courtroom was packed for final arguments. The jury is expected to begin considering its verdict on Tuesday. The former Elle magazine advice columnist is also seeking damages for defamation after Trump accused her of lying about the attack and “destroyed her reputation”. “The whole story is an unbelievable work of fiction,” he said.Ĭarroll is suing for unspecified damages, claiming that Trump attacked her in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman’s lingerie department in the spring of 1996. “In order to find for him you have to find that Donald Trump, the nonstop liar, is the only one in this court telling the truth,” she said.īut Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told the six men and three women on the jury that, by her own admission, large parts of Carroll’s account were “unbelievable” and “remarkable”. Kaplan’s said Trump’s defense to the alleged rape in a New York department store dressing room in 1996 was that everyone else is “lying about everything”.
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