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E Jean Carroll says she came to court ‘because Trump raped me and said it didn’t happen’

E Jean Carroll arrives at court in New York on Thursday.
E Jean Carroll arrives at court in New York on Thursday. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The advice columnist E Jean Carroll told jurors in Manhattan on Thursday she came to court “because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen”.

Carroll, 79, said social media users lobbed new attacks against her as people called her a “liar, slut, ugly, old”.

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