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Trump’s civil rape case: what is he accused of and what happens next?

Trump in the Oval Office in December 2020. Trump has denied the allegations against him.
Donald Trump in the Oval Office in December 2020. Trump has denied the allegations against him. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

The rape case brought in New York against Donald Trump by the famed advice columnist E Jean Carroll has caught the attention of America as the latest legal drama to involve the former US president.

The case is so far the only one to come to court among more than a dozen allegations of rape, groping and other sexual assaults made against Trump.

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