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E Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who is suing former US President Donald Trump for raping her, rebuffed a lawyer for Donald Trump who questioned her behaviour and memory as he cross-examined her on Thursday about her allegation.
On the third day of a trial in her civil case against the former US president in Manhattan federal court, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina challenged her assertion that she didn’t yell for help during the alleged rape.
Trump’s defense has focused on why Carroll did not publicly report the alleged rape at the time or get the attention of others in the store.I’m not a screamer,” Carroll testified in US District Court in Manhattan. “I was too much in panic to scream.”
People always ask, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’ It keeps women silent,” Carroll told the lawyer.You can’t beat up on me for not screaming,” she told the defense lawyer. “Women who don’t come forward, one of the reasons they don’t come forward is they are asked why they didn’t scream. Some women scream, some women don’t. It keeps women silent.”
When asked multiple times by Trump’s lawyer that she did not scream, E Jean Carroll lost her cool and raised her voice, “I’m telling you: he raped me whether I screamed or not.”
E Jean Carroll is seeking damages for the alleged rape in a New York department store changing room in the mid-1990s. She is also seeking damages for her defamation after Donald Trump accused her of lying when she went public with her accusations in the book.
Trump’s lawyer pointed out that Carroll waited for more than two decades to come out in public about her encounter with Trump to sell more copies of her 2019 memoir. Denying it, Carroll said she felt compelled to go public after rape allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017 prompted many other women to share their accounts of sexual abuse.
“It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work,” Carroll said.Woman after woman stood up,” Carroll said before her six-man, three-woman jury. “I thought, well, this may be a way to change the culture of sexual violence.”
Carroll was also asked why she never told the police all these years and never revealed the story in her columns. To this, Jean Carroll admitted that she confided only in her friends Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin.
