Trump's vulgar 'Grab 'em' remark undermines denials, rape accuser's lawyer says

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A 2005 'Access Hollywood' video in which Donald Trump says women let him 'grab 'em by the pussy' bolsters the accounts of writer E. Jean Carroll and other women who accuse the former U.S. president of sexual assault, Carroll's lawyer said on Monday.

" video in which Donald Trump says women let him "grab 'em by the pussy" bolsters the accounts of writer E. Jean Carroll and other women who accuse the former U.S. president of sexual assault, Carroll's lawyer said on Monday.

"He admitted on video to doing exactly the kinds of things that have brought us here to this courtroom," Kaplan told jurors in Manhattan federal court.Kaplan said, "He thinks stars like him can get away with it. He thinks he can get away with it here." Trump has yet to attend the trial, which began on April 25, but told reporters in Ireland last Thursday that he "probably" would attend. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's lawyer, said he expected jurors to begin deliberating on Tuesday.in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996, and then defamed her by denying it happened. The former Elle magazine advice columnist is seeking unspecified monetary damages.

Two of Carroll's longtime friends testified that she told them about the attack shortly after it occurred and said they believed her. Jurors also heard from two other women who said Trump sexually assaulted them in separate incidents decades ago. Trump denies those claims as well.

 

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