Former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused former US President Donald Trump of rape and defamation, arrived at a Manhattan federal court for the first day of the civil trial
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan admonished them before seating nine jurors who will weigh whether Trump raped former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s - and defamed her by denying it happened.
She invoked a new state law in New York giving adult sexual abuse victims a one-year window to sue their alleged attackers, even if statutes of limitations have long since expired. Trump was not in the courthouse and was not required to attend the trial. He was also unlikely to testify, according to lawyers from both sides.Kaplan is keeping jurors anonymous from the public and the lawyers, to shield them from potential harassment by Trump supporters."If you're normally a Bill and you're selected for the jury or even before, you can be John for a couple of days," he told the panel.He asked many questions to gauge bias.
The former president has repeatedly attacked Carroll and in personal terms, once calling her mentally ill, since she first publicly accused him of rape in June 2019.Carroll said her encounter with Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman store occurred in late 1995 or early 1996. Jurors were expected to hear a 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape on which Trump made graphic, vulgar comments about women.
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