E. Jean Carroll says Trump ‘shattered my reputation’ when he ‘lied’ about sexually assaulting her and called her a ‘wack job’: Ex-president shakes his head as columnist takes the stand in $10million defamation trial
- Carroll told the jury that Trump destroyed a reputation she spent 50 years building
- Columnist Claims She’s Now Known As A ‘Liar’, ‘Fraud’ And A ‘Crazy Job’
- A New York jury found last month that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the 1990s
Donald Trump repeatedly shook his head as prosecutor E. Jean Carroll told a New York court that he “shattered” her reputation by lying about her sexual abuse and calling her a “crazy job.”
The columnist took the stand in the $10 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday morning, claiming the former president, 77, has continued to lie about her and the attack.
A New York jury found last year that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. The new lawsuit is based on comments he made about her while he was president.
Carroll’s dramatic testimony began after Trump left Trump Tower early Wednesday morning with mysterious red cuts on his hands.
When asked by her attorney Roberta Kaplan why she was in the courtroom, Carroll said, “Donald Trump attacked me and when I wrote about it he said it never happened.
Donald Trump shook his head as rape accuser E. Jean Carroll told a New York court that he “shattered” her reputation by lying about her sexual abuse and calling her a “crazy job.”
“He lied and shattered my reputation.”
Trump could be seen shaking his head dismissively.
Carroll told the court that in the same courtroom last year during a separate trial, a different jury found she had been “sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.”
After calling her a liar when she first went public in 2019, Trump “continues to lie about her,” Carroll said.
“He lied last month, he lied on Sunday, he lied yesterday,” she said: “I am here to get my reputation back and to stop him from telling lies.”
Carroll said she spent 50 years building her reputation as an advice columnist because she “stuck to the truth.”
When asked how her reputation had been damaged, she said that the day before she was to testify she looked on Twitter, formerly X, and saw a comment saying she was a “fraud.”
She said: ‘I used to only get noticed as a journalist. Now I’m known as a liar, a cheater and a fool.
Trump (far left) and Carroll (second from left) are pictured with their respective spouses John Johnson and Marla Maples in 1987
Carroll’s dramatic testimony began after Trump left Trump Tower early Wednesday morning with mysterious red cuts on his hands
Trump lawyer Alina Habba is seen leaving Trump Tower to join the motorcade heading to the Manhattan courtroom
Carroll, pictured in the photo that arrived in Cout on Wednesday, said she spent 50 years building her reputation as an advice columnist because she ‘stuck to the truth’
“People aren’t eager to write to an advice columnist who the president thinks is an embarrassment.”
Carroll talked about growing up in rural Indiana with a Republican family and winning a beauty pageant in her youth.
At the age of 13, she sent her first article to write, but she had to wait twenty years for her first success, which came at the age of 36.
But the mood remained testy, and after an objection, Judge Kaplan said, “Let’s make this clear to both sides.
‘The first lawyer to say something when a witness is (testifying). This isn’t tag team lawyering.”