Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, hit again and identified the very fact Trump didn’t attend the trial nor did his protection workforce put ahead any witnesses – in comparison with the 11 witnesses they known as to the stand. She argued Trump “had each alternative to rebut all this proof, he didn’t”.
Kaplan stated: “E Jean Carroll introduced this case as a result of Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in 1996 in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman after which defamed her in 2022 by claiming that she was loopy and made the entire thing up.
“That is all concerning the assault. On high of all that, Donald Trump had each alternative to take the stand and rebut all this proof. He didn’t. He didn’t placed on a single witness within the civil case. We placed on 11.
“However what we did put in is the videotape of Entry Hollywood the place he principally says, ‘I seize girls by the p—- with out their consent,’ after which in his deposition that I took and requested him about that video – what did he say? He embraced it, your honor.”