Jury selection to start in Donald Trump's civil rape trial
Jury selection is set to begin at a federal court in New York in a civil trial over a writer's claim that Donald Trump raped her nearly three decades ago in a department store changing room.
Former advice columnist E Jean Carroll is expected to testify about a chance meeting with the former president in the mid-1990s that she alleges turned violent. that after running into Mr Trump at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, he invited her to shop with him for a woman's lingerie gift before they teased one another to try on a garment.pushed her against a wall and raped her before she fought him off and fled.Since she first made her accusations in a 2019 memoir, Trump has denied that a rape ever occurred or that he even knew Ms Carroll.
He has labelled her a"nut job" and"mentally sick" and claimed she fabricated the rape claim to boost sales of her book. The trial is in a federal civil court, meaning that no matter what the outcome is, Mr Trump cannot be sent to prison.
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