Former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll watches as Tacopina, lawyer of former US President Trump, makes closing arguments during a civil trial where Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation, in New York, US (Image: Reuters)
Carroll’s lawyer said a 2005 “Access Hollywood” video bolsters the accounts of Carroll and other women who accused Trump of sexual assault.
Donald Trump’s absence from a trial where writer E. Jean Carroll accuses him of rape and defamation shows that “he did it,” a lawyer for Carroll said on Monday, while Trump’s lawyer told jurors the case was “outrageous.”
“He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll,” lawyer Mike Ferrara told jurors as the civil trial in Manhattan federal court neared the end of an eighth day. “You should draw the conclusion that that’s because he did it.”
The six-man, three-woman jury was expected to begin deliberating on Tuesday.
Carroll, 79,…