After a rapid jury selection, attorneys for the Malignant Loser and his victim E. Jean Carroll gave their opening statements to the jury. Ms. Carroll's attorney didn't hold back in her description of the Malignant Loser's predatory pattern, indicating that two other women that were sexually assaulted by the Malignant Loser will testify:
“'Three women, one clear pattern,' attorney Shawn Crowley said. 'Start with a friendly encounter in a semi-public place. All of a sudden pounce, kiss, grab, grope. Don’t wait. When you are a star, you can do anything you want. And when they speak up about what happened, attack. Humiliate them. Call them liars. Call them too ugly to assault.'
Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations. A jury was seated Tuesday and the first witnesses will appear beginning Wednesday.
Carroll is expected to testify Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. The first witness is expected to be Cheryl Beal, who worked at Bergdorf Goodman, the source said." (our emphasis)
The inclusion of two other assault victims, of an employee of Bergdorf Goodman where Carroll was assaulted by the Malignant Loser, and contemporary witness accounts at the time should provide the jury with ample evidence in this civil case.
The Malignant Loser's goombah attorney, Joseph Tacopina's approach is to smear Carroll and any witness that may challenge his client's claim of innocence, saying as he does that it's a political hit job:
"Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina said during his opening statement Carroll conspired against the former president with the two women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, because they hate him politically.
'They schemed to hurt Donald Trump politically,' Trump’s attorney said trial evidence will show.
Tacopina told the jury they’re not there to consider the accounts of those two women.
'That’s not for you to decide here,' Tacopina said. 'Those people have never made a claim. No one has ever told the police, including Ms. Carroll. No one. Because that would require a real investigation. No one has ever done that. But they want you to focus on anything but the E. Jean Carroll story because it is so incredible and so unbelievable.'” (our emphasis)
Tacopina knows that a great number of rapes are never reported, and in the case of a wealthy celebrity, it's even harder to press charges knowing the resources that will be used against you. Carroll will get her chance to testify today, along with the other witnesses, and with the Malignant Loser's own words on the Access Hollywood tape, she'll make a compelling case against him.
BONUS: The Malignant Loser's big mouth might land him in more trouble --
Not (yet) mentioned by Carroll's lawyers, a second Truth Social post this morning... pic.twitter.com/ruN7fv4c0E
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) April 26, 2023
