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The New York Daily News reports:
The first of three bombshell cases facing Donald Trump in his home state will head to trial this week in a civil rape lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll — including allegations waiting five years to make it before a panel of New Yorkers. Jury selection starts Tuesday in Manhattan federal court in Carroll’s sexual battery and defamation suit against Trump. Jurors will hear from two of at least 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual assault.
Natasha Stoynoff claims that Trump pushed her against a wall during a December 2005 interview at Mar-a-Lago, when she was interviewing him for People magazine, and forced his tongue down her throat. Jessica Leeds claims Trump molested her while seated next to him on a flight to New York in the 1980s. She says he grabbed her breast and put his hand up her skirt.
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The identities of the jurors will be kept anonymous despite Trump’s attempt to make their names public.
Writer E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s. He has called her a liar, and she sued accusing him of defamation and battery. https://t.co/mM00epEtt2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 24, 2023
Trump’s attorney sought to gain access to the jury room after the judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape and defamation trial against former President Donald Trump ruled that the jury would be anonymous over the risk of harassment and retaliation.https://t.co/2P76VZFPEP
— Truthout (@truthout) April 18, 2023
Trump to face anonymous jury in high-profile New York defamation trial https://t.co/F9hmvP3lO2 pic.twitter.com/cYkW5cYGaC
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) March 23, 2023