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E Jean Carroll pushes back in Trump cross-examination: ‘He raped me whether I screamed or not’

The former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll answers questions from Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina during the civil trial.
The former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll answers questions from Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina during the civil trial. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

The advice columnist E Jean Carroll has denied that she falsely accused Donald Trump of raping her in order to sell books and for political ends.

On the third day of Carroll’s civil suit against the former president for battery and defamation, Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, put it to her that she made her allegation the centrepiece of a book proposal she was trying to sell.

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