E. Jean Carroll Gives Jury Graphic Testimony of Rape Trump Denies
- Writer E. Jean Carroll took witness stand in her civil trial
- Former president calls case politically motivated ‘witch hunt’
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The New York author who sued Donald Trump claiming he raped her in a department store in the 1990s testified in graphic detail about the alleged assault, breaking down at times and saying she even bought bullets in fear of the blowback from her accusation.
E. Jean Carroll, a journalist and former Elle magazine advice columnist, told a jury of six men and three women in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday that she kept silent about the alleged attack in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room for decades, believing Trump would destroy her if she spoke up. That’s exactly what he tried to do when she went public in 2019, Carroll said.