Posted on Mar 11, 2023
'Access Hollywood' tape can be used in civil case against Trump, judge rules
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The notorious "Access Hollywood" tape that captured Donald Trump saying he can grope women without their consent can be used as evidence in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against the former president, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The judge also ruled that he would allow testimony from two women who say they were sexually assaulted by Trump in different decades, allegations that Trump has denied and testimony that his lawyers also sought to exclude.
Asked about the ruling, Trump lawyer Alina Habba said, "We maintain the utmost confidence that our client will be vindicated at the upcoming trial."
Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan declined to comment.
The judge also ruled that he would allow testimony from two women who say they were sexually assaulted by Trump in different decades, allegations that Trump has denied and testimony that his lawyers also sought to exclude.
Asked about the ruling, Trump lawyer Alina Habba said, "We maintain the utmost confidence that our client will be vindicated at the upcoming trial."
Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan declined to comment.
'Access Hollywood' tape can be used in civil case against Trump, judge rules
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."In her deposition in the case, Leeds testified that Trump started groping her and putting his hand up her skirt when she was seated next to him in a flight from Texas to New York in 1979, the judge wrote. She said she was able to free herself and move to another seat.
Leeds said she ran into Trump at some point afterwards in New York, and he told her, “I remember you. You’re the c--- from the airplane.”
"Mr. Trump has claimed Ms. Leeds is a liar and that such event ever occurred. And he will be entitled to make that argument to the jury," the judge wrote.
Stoynoff testified she had her encounter with Trump in 2005, when she went to interview him and his wife, Melania, for People magazine.
She said he offered to show her a painting in one of the rooms and then closed the door behind her, grabbed her shoulders, "pushed me against this wall and starts kissing me."
She said she pushed him back twice before he was interrupted by a butler coming into the room.
"Mr. Trump has denied publicly any such occurrence ever happened," the judge wrote. "He of course will be entitled to do so before the jury. And the jury could credit Mr. Trump's testimony in preference to Ms. Stoynoff's. But that is for another day."
CORRECTION (March 10, 2023, 5:21 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when the civil trial in Carroll’s case against Trump is scheduled to begin. It’s April 10, not April 25."
..."In her deposition in the case, Leeds testified that Trump started groping her and putting his hand up her skirt when she was seated next to him in a flight from Texas to New York in 1979, the judge wrote. She said she was able to free herself and move to another seat.
Leeds said she ran into Trump at some point afterwards in New York, and he told her, “I remember you. You’re the c--- from the airplane.”
"Mr. Trump has claimed Ms. Leeds is a liar and that such event ever occurred. And he will be entitled to make that argument to the jury," the judge wrote.
Stoynoff testified she had her encounter with Trump in 2005, when she went to interview him and his wife, Melania, for People magazine.
She said he offered to show her a painting in one of the rooms and then closed the door behind her, grabbed her shoulders, "pushed me against this wall and starts kissing me."
She said she pushed him back twice before he was interrupted by a butler coming into the room.
"Mr. Trump has denied publicly any such occurrence ever happened," the judge wrote. "He of course will be entitled to do so before the jury. And the jury could credit Mr. Trump's testimony in preference to Ms. Stoynoff's. But that is for another day."
CORRECTION (March 10, 2023, 5:21 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when the civil trial in Carroll’s case against Trump is scheduled to begin. It’s April 10, not April 25."
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