A retired businesswoman told a federal jury Tuesday that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her on an airplane decades ago, testifying in support of writer E. Jean Carroll, whoJessica Leeds, 81 years old, said that while on a plane in either 1978 or 1979, Mr. Trump pulled her toward him and tried to kiss her, then grabbed her breast.second week of the trial
Earlier Tuesday, Ms. Carroll’s lawyers sought to bolster her account by presenting a friend whom she spoke to minutes after the alleged assault. Mr. Trump and his then-pregnant wife were guests, according to Ms. Leeds. She told the jury that when Mr. Trump saw her, he gave a profane response. “I remember you. You’re that c—- from the airplane,” she recalled him saying.
Lisa Birnbach, a writer and magazine editor, is one of two women whom Ms. Carroll has said she told aboutshortly after it occurred in the mid-1990s. The two spoke on the phone for about three or four minutes, Ms. Birnbach told the jury. Ms. Birnbach told the jury she ducked out of the room, out of the earshot of her children. “I whispered, ‘E. Jean, he raped you. You should go to the police,’” Ms. Birnbach said.
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