Rape allegation against Trump by prominent ex-columnist heads to civil trial

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The former president has said his accuser, Ms E. Jean Carroll, is “totally lying”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

that threaten to derail his 2024 run for a second term in the White House, denies the allegations.

Ms Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, says she was raped by Trump in the changing room at the luxury Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the mid-1990s.Ms Carroll first made the allegation in an excerpt from her book published by New York Magazine in 2019. Ms Carroll first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 but was unable to include the rape claim because the statute of limitations for the alleged offense had expired.

It gave sexual assault victims in the state a one-year window to sue their alleged abusers even when the abuse occurred long ago.

 

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