Former US President donald trump He will not testify in the New York trial against him. The defendant’s lawyer said on Tuesday that he was accused of slandering and raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
At the end of today’s session, attorney Joe Tacopina told Judge Lewis Kaplan that he would only call one witness, an expert, and then confirmed that Trump would not appear as a witness at the trial. The judge said it was “his own decision”.
Earlier, the jury had heard testimony from Lisa Birnbach, a friend of Carroll’s. He allegedly uncovered the rape incident that occurred in the mid-1990s. and also about a woman who accused the millionaire of groping her during a flight in 1979.
“I’m here because my friend, my good friend who is a good person, told me about something terrible that happened to her, and as a result, He lost his job and his life became very, very difficult.”said Birnbach, who is also a writer and journalist, according to The New York Times.
“I want the world to know that he is telling the truth,” Birnbach said after Carroll testified for two days. She reiterated the allegations that Trump raped her in her locker room. luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman’s.
He remembered Carroll telling him, “Lisa, you won’t believe what happened to me.” At the time he was “breathless, hyperventilated, emotional.” She also said she thought it was “a little crazy” for her to go to the lingerie section with Trump, but continued to listen to her.
Birnbach claimed that Carroll had told him many times: “He took my socks off, he took my socks off”I almost couldn’t believe it” and also described how Trump penetrated her with his penis, after which his friend suggested that he go to the police.
However, he added, preferred not to go to the complainant authorities, She asked that she not tell anyone she had confessed to herself, and they didn’t talk about it again until 2019.
W. Perry Brandt, one of Trump’s lawyers, focused on the political leanings of the Democrat Birnbach and confronted him about his statements about Trump in a podcast he presented from 2018 to 2021.
Brandt read the transcripts that Birnbach was in. He referred to Trump as “an infection we can’t get rid of, like herpes.” “Agent of Vladimir Putin” and “a narcissistic sociopath”, which Carroll’s defense disputes.
Also sitting in the witness chair was Jessica Leeds, 81.The one who first disclosed during the 2016 election campaign that Trump groped her while flying to New York in 1979, reaffirming her accusation today.
“We were sitting there and all of a sudden, Trump decided to kiss and caress me.”stated.
“He was trying to kiss me and pull me towards him. He was holding my breasts. As if I had 40 trillion handsAccording to the New York Post, the woman said.