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Ilya Marritz

5 things to know as E. Jean Carroll's civil trial begins against Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump faces a lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist who says he raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s. Trump denies the allegations. (Scott Olson/Getty Images; Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

NEW YORK — Jury selection begins Tuesday in the sexual assault and defamation civil suit brought against former President Donald Trump by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Late last year, Carroll accused Trump of "causing significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological harms, loss of dignity, and invasion of her privacy." Trump's lawyers argue that the statute under which Carroll brought the assault claim violates due process, and call the defamation claim "baseless."

What is the core of this suit?

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