Donald Trump has better things to do if we are to believe the answer he gave to a reporter who questioned him during his trip to Irelandwhere he visits his own golf courses, while on Wednesday, May 3, the sixth day of civil lawsuit for rape and defamationwhich contrasts her with the journalist and author E. Jean Carroll.
An absence that justifies a visit that was a ” longstanding agreement attend a ” great welcome “, adding to the contempt and detachment total that the former president was already showing.
Discredit the account of E. Jean Carroll
However, if you think “We are doing very well in New York ”, which emerges from these six days of trial it is not so supportive of the former president and his defensewho tries in every way, and sometimes in vain, to do it discredit Carroll’s testimony.
At the opening of the trial, Wednesday 26 April, the former columnist of the SHE gave a chilling account of his version of events: “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me “, detailing the conditions of his alleged assault in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale department store, in the mid-1990s. Allegations refuted by Donald Trump.
The “ideal victim”
From the beginning of the trial and during several days of cross-examination, Joseph Tacopina, Donald Trump’s lawyer, famous for his very aggressive defense strategiesasked E. Jean Carroll about it his behavior during the attack and his reaction to it. Why didn’t she call 911? Why didn’t he file a complaint afterwards? Because, much later, she said, in a podcast recorded in 2019, that his life was ” fabulous »? In summary, because he didn’t wear the costume of the ideal victima rebuke masquerading as a question that comes up again and again when it comes to discredit the accounts of victims of rape or sexual assault.
However, many studies have already demonstrated and explained the phenomenon of astonishment to which victims of assault may be subjected, preventing them from moving, defending themselvesand sometimes even later, remember the details of the assault.
A reality that Donald Trump’s lawyers cleverly decided to ignorequestioning E. Jean Carroll again the exact date of the alleged assaultaccusing him, openly have invented everything based on the script from an episode of the series Law and order dating back to 2012, in which a rape takes place in the dressing room of a department store. She accuses her promptly denied by E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers, arguing that in this case the columnist could not have testified to her assault with two of her friends several years before her.
Two other women accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault
So many vain attempts to destabilize and discredit the testimony of E. Jean Carroll, which have not failed to annoy Judge Kaplanwho repeatedly responded sarcastically to questions from Donald Trump’s lawyers, sometimes even arousing the laughter of jury members, as reported by our colleagues in the New York Times.
Why are accusations raining down on the former President during this process, and not just from E. Jean Carroll, demonstrating a modus operandi well established.
On Tuesday, May 2, Jessica Leeds, a retired businesswoman, explained that she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump on a plane in the late 1970s. When she met him on a shared flight, she said: “There was no discussion, he came out of nowhere (…) He tried to kiss me, grab my breast (…) It felt like forever”.
In the afternoon of Wednesday 3 May it was the turn of another woman to testify: while she has to produce a report on the 1-year marriage of Donald Trump and his wife Melania, then pregnant, in December 2005, the former journalist of PeopleNatasha Stoynoff, says she was sexually assaulted by the former president at his residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Distraught, she only told a few friends about it, thinking she was isolated, before realizing more than a decade later she wasn’t the only one, when a video of Trump explains ” grabbing women by the pussy was revealed by the Washington Post. He then felt the responsibility to write publicly about his attack on him to demonstrate that, contrary to what the candidate later claimed during the electoral campaign, he had already, at least once, forcibly kissed women.
E. Jean Carroll suffered for a long time after the attack, says psychologist
Leslie Lebowitz, a clinical psychologist and trauma specialist, was also heard on Wednesday, answering questions after a 20-hour interview with E. Jean Carroll, confirming that the American author had been in pain long after the attack.
After explaining the workings of the brain of a person who has just suffered trauma, she was asked why Carroll refused to use the words ” rape ” OR ” victim and what impact the attack had on his life. ” She felt stupid replied the psychologist, he felt like he was worth less than before “.
Building on an old sexist and misogynistic cliché, Chad Seigel, one of Trump’s lawyers, asked Leslie Lebowitz if E. Jean Carroll could have ” show symptoms in a way that would benefit his case. ” I don’t think he did “replied the psychologist.
For his part, Donald Trump has no plans to bring additional witnesses to refute Carroll’s story. The jury should be able to meet next week to deliberate.
Source: Madmoizelle
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