
Stoynoff choked up as she described how she had traveled to Mar-a-Lago toward the end of 2005 to prepare an article about Mr. The other, Natasha Stoynoff, a former People magazine reporter, took the witness stand on Wednesday afternoon. One, Jessica Leeds, testified on Tuesday. Trump had assaulted her, but also two other women “in a remarkably similar way.” Carroll’s lawyers promised in their opening statement last week to show the jury not only that Mr.

“It’s the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” he says. Trump responds, adding that was because the assault never happened. “I didn’t have to reach out to anybody,” Mr. At one point, he’s asked whether he ever contacted Bergdorf’s after the allegation. Kaplan, played for the jury clips from an October 2022 deposition by Mr. She said the former president went on to rape her in a dressing room in the lingerie department. Trump entered and recognized her, she testified, and persuaded her to help him shop for a gift for a female friend. As she was leaving through a revolving door, Mr. The attack happened during a visit to the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman one evening in the mid-1990s, Ms. Judge Kaplan told jurors that they would likely receive the case to begin deliberations early next week. Carroll and others who testified on her behalf when they make their closing argument, likely Monday.

Trump’s lawyers can still use testimony they have elicited during cross-examinations of Ms. “I hear we’re doing very well in New York,” Mr. When a reporter asked him why he was in Ireland instead of New York for his civil case, he responded that he had a longstanding agreement to travel there, according to a recording posted on Twitter on Wednesday.

Trump, who is again running for president, went to Scotland and Ireland this week. Trump would not come to Manhattan federal court to testify in the civil case. The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, had earlier told Judge Lewis A.

Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of rape said that he would present no witnesses during the trial, which completed its sixth day Wednesday. A lawyer defending former President Donald J.
