Former President Donald Trump is reportedly set to appear in court in New York on April 25. But the case is not related to his indictment on 34 felony counts stemming from his alleged hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Instead, Trump will begin another legal fight related to allegations that he raped a woman in New York.
According to Yahoo News, a jury trial in one of two civil cases brought against Trump by author E. Jean Carroll is set to get underway in New York on April 25.
“While a judge put Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump on indefinite hold, the battery case, in which Carroll alleges that Trump raped her in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, is plowing ahead,” the report states.
Trump and Carroll are both expected to testify in the case.
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Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who will preside over the case, ruled last month that Trump’s own past misogynistic comments about women would be admissible as evidence at trial. Some of those remarks were captured on audiotape and will be played for the jury.
“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said in the infamous video, in which he later added, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything … grab them by the pussy.”
The former president has repeatedly denied Carroll’s rape allegations.
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“I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event,” Trump said in October, after being ordered by a judge to be deposed in the case.
In that deposition, Trump quipped about Carroll’s looks. “Physically, she’s not my type,” he said during questioning.
But when he was shown a photograph that was taken in 1987 of him socializing with Carroll, Trump mistook her for his former wife Marla Maples.
“That’s Marla, yeah,” Trump said, according to a transcript of the deposition. “That’s my wife.”
Despite objections from Trump’s lawyers, Kaplan ruled that the “Access Hollywood” remarks made by Trump — in which he famously bragged about his own behavior when he was around beautiful women — are also admissible in the case.
