Writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleges in a lawsuit that Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s in a New York department store, was questioned Thursday by a lawyer for the former president who repeatedly suggested her claim was made up.
“You were supposedly raped?” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina asked Carroll early in his cross-examination.
“I was raped,” Carroll responded.
Carroll, 79, maintains the attack happened while shopping with Trump, 76, in a Manhattan department store in 1995 or 1996. She went public with her claim in 2019, which the then-president derided as a "hoax" she made up to promote sales of the book where she made the allegation.
“You were supposedly raped?” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina asked Carroll early in his cross-examination.
“I was raped,” Carroll responded.
Carroll, 79, maintains the attack happened while shopping with Trump, 76, in a Manhattan department store in 1995 or 1996. She went public with her claim in 2019, which the then-president derided as a "hoax" she made up to promote sales of the book where she made the allegation.