Donald Trump’s rape accuser was ‘persuaded that he wants to kill me’ but can’t recall the date
A woman accusing ex-President Donald Trump of raping her believed that he wanted to kill her, but could not remember the date of the encounter.
Columnist E Jean Carroll faced cross-examination on her second day on the witness stand on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Carroll, 79, claims that Trump sexually assaulted her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.
Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina brought up an excerpt from Carroll’s 2019 book she was working on but was never published.
‘I’ve become persuaded that he wants to kill me… as he stacks the courts, my rights over my body are being taken away… I’m afraid that my right to free speech will go next,’ Carroll wrote.
Her excerpt also stated that Trump was ‘poisoning my water’ and ‘he’s polluting my air’.
Tacopina also questioned Carroll on why she could not recall the exact date that Trump allegedly raped her.
‘I wished to heaven we could give you a date,’ Carroll replied.
In opening statements, Tacopina had said Trump cannot give an alibi without knowing the precise date of Carroll’s allegation.
The cross-examination began tense, with Tacopina saying, ‘good morning’, and Carroll not saying anything but nodding slightly. She responded after Tacopina’s second ‘good morning’.
Carroll took the stand at 10.30am, with one of her attorneys, Mike Ferrara, finishing up his questioning that began on Wednesday.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan called a lunch break around 12.45pm and the trial was set to reconvene at 2pm.
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