The former US president's legal problems could jeopardize his aim to contest for a second term in office in 2024. Jury selection is slated to start on Tuesday in a legal case pitting former US President Donald Trump against a well-known former American columnist who alleges he sexually attacked her in the 1990s.
E Jean Carroll, 79, said Mr. Trump sexually abused her at a New York department shop. After she came up with the claims years later, he defamed her. Mr. Trump, dealing with various legal concerns that may jeopardize his bid for a second term in 2024, refutes the accusations.
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So soon, a few weeks have passed since his historic arraignment on charges of making an alleged hush-money payment to an adult film star before the 2016 election. The trial has already begun.
Former Elle magazine contributor Ms. Carroll alleges that Mr. Trump assaulted her in the middle of the 1990s in the dressing room of the luxurious Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
She claimed that the assault happened after Mr. Trump requested her shopping recommendations. Ms. Carroll initially accused a section from her book that New York Magazine released in 2019.
Next, Mr. Trump claimed in his response that he had never met Ms. Carroll. He stated that she was "not his type," and was lying. Ms. Carroll's 2019 defamation case against Mr. Trump did not contain the rape allegation because the statute of limitations for the purported offense had expired.
However, a new statute that provides compensation to sexual assault victims decades after incidents may have occurred went into force in New York in November of last year.
It enabled victims of sexual assault in the state for a year to file a lawsuit against their accused abusers, even if the incident happened long ago. A new lawsuit was filed by Ms. Carroll's attorneys accusing Mr. Trump of battery "when he forcibly raped and groped" her.
Additionally, it contained libel for Mr. Trump's statement on his Truth Social platform disputing the claimed rape and calling Ms. Carroll a "complete con job."
The lawsuit seeks specific compensatory and punitive damages for the victim's reputational impairment, pain and suffering, loss of dignity, and psychological harm. As Ms. Carroll's attorneys have stated, they do not intend to call Mr. Trump to the witness stand; he is not anticipated to testify.
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The study will go on for one to two weeks. Trump returns to New York despite additional legal issues. Trump returns to New York despite other legal problems. Trump became the first sitting or past president to be charged with a felony when he was brought into custody in the hush-money case earlier this month.
Additionally, he is under investigation for his attempts to have a Georgian election in 2020 that he lost, for allegedly handling confidential information seized from the White House, and for his participation on the January 6, 2021, takeover of the US Capitol.
