Donald Trump Rape Trial: Judge Denies Trump Attorneys’ Motion for Mistrial

The Donald Trump rape trial on E. Jean Carroll's civil lawsuit continued into its third day of questioning, with Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissing his lawyers' motion for a mistrial.

The former president filed the motion as he argued that Judge Kalpan made "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings" against him. His attorney, Joe Tacopina, added that he would ask the judge to "correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the jury" or give him a greater leeway when cross-examining Carroll.

The 18-page letter filed last Monday claimed that there had been "numerous examples" of "unfair treatment by the Court." However, the judge still denied the motion. CNN pointed out that it would be unusual for the judge to declare a mistrial based on statements that he himself made during a trial.

Jean Carroll Cross-Examined by Donald Trump Attorney Joe Tacopina

During the third day, former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, the plaintiff, was cross-examined by Trump attorney Joe Tacopina, just moments after Judge Kaplan denied their motion for a mistrial. This was the third time she took the stand and the latest round of questioning from Trump's defenders.

The Trump attorneys pressed Carroll on why she kept quiet after all these years, only coming out during the Trump presidency. However, Carroll argued, "I was born in 1943. Women like me were taught and trained to keep our chins up and to not complain."

In court, she admitted that she was ashamed of the alleged assault and stated that she believed it was her fault. According to the BBC, she spent much of her time in court talking about her experience during the alleged assault before the Trump lawyers finally got to cross-examine her, with Tacopina asking her why she still went back to the Bergdorf Goodman department store even though she was assaulted there.

"Bergdorf's is not a place I'm afraid to enter," she answered.

Carroll was allegedly assaulted by Trump at the high-end department store's dressing room in the 1990s after bumping into the real estate mogul while shopping there.

Carroll also denied that she based her story on a 2012 episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." That episode involved a character talking about bursting into a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room as a woman tries on lingerie and raping her. Tacopina called it an "amazing coincidence."

E. Jean Carrol Getting Advice From Trump Adviser's Husband Led to Donald Trump's Rape Trial

E. Jean Carroll filed her civil battery and defamation against Donald Trump while he was still president, and the former magazine columnist admitted that this was thanks to the advice of the husband of top Trump official, Kellyanne Conway.

She admitted that George Conway, Kellyanne's then-husband and a top conservative activist, encouraged her to take legal action. She stated George Conway laid out the difference between criminal and civil cases during her testimony.

"George said: 'you should seriously think about this,'" she told the jury.

Two days after that meeting with the conservative lawyer, she filed her first lawsuit against Trump, according to The Guardian.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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