The defamation and battery trial of former President Donald Trump resumed Tuesday with testimony from two women.Donald Trump's lawyers said Wednesday that they will not call any witnesses at the New York civil trial arising from writer E. Jean Carroll's claims that the former president raped her in the mid-1990s.
Trump denies ever touching women against their will and has said that Carroll's claims are politically motivated attempts to smear his reputation and deny him the White House. The case isn't being heard on Fridays, meaning that jurors could hear closing arguments and start deliberating next week.Earlier Wednesday, a clinical psychologist hired by Carroll's lawyers testified that Carroll shows common signs of trauma and has been able to move on with her life in part by blaming herself and leaning into her exuberant public persona.
"For many years, she just simply blamed herself for the assault, thought she just did something stupid and that's why it happened," Lebowitz said. "It made her feel she was worthless. She felt degraded, diminished," Lebowitz said. "Ms. Carroll, like most of us in many ways, doesn't want to be a victim, doesn't want to be pitied. But more than most people, she is fiercely identified as ... the person who can march on ... and put it behind you."
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