Trump groped me on flight, woman tells US civil trial

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NEW YORK: A woman told a New York civil trial on Tuesday that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her on a flight in the United States in the late 1970s.

Jessica Leeds recounted the alleged attack while testifying in the writer E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against the ex-president.Leeds told Manhattan's federal court that Trump put his hand up her skirt in the business class section of a flight to New York in 1978 or 1979.'There was no conversation. It was like out of the blue,' said Leeds, now 81.'He was trying to kiss me, grabbing my breasts,' she added.

Jurors also watched a video of Trump's previous denial of Leeds' accusation, where he said, 'Believe me, she would not be my first choice.'Trump's lawyers confirmed that the ex-president would not be testifying.'Narcissistic sociopath'A friend of Carroll's also testified Tuesday, telling jurors that Carroll called her shortly after the alleged attack, in 1996, to confide in her.'I want the world to know she was telling the truth,' Lisa Birnbach testified.

 

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