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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander and Bevan Hurley

Trump legal team fails to stop jury from hearing separate sexual assault allegation

AP

The Trump legal team has failed to stop the inclusion of a separate sexual assault allegation in the civil rape trial between Donald Trump and writer E Jean Carroll.

Ms Carroll claims that Mr Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996 and that he later defamed her in 2019 as president when he rejected her allegation.

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