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There is also a request to move to the federal court for criminal trial for ‘silencing sexual harassment’
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(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kang Geon-taek = Former US President Donald Trump denied the allegations, calling a woman who filed a civil suit claiming to be sexually assaulted by him 27 years ago a mentally ill.
According to AFP and Bloomberg News on the 4th (local time), former President Trump referred to E. Jean Carroll, who was a columnist for the fashion magazine Elle, as a “nut job” through a video testimony released at the Southern District Court in New York that day. countered that the claim was “a lie”.
Carol revealed in 2019 that former President Trump tried to sexually assault her in 1995 or 1996 in a dressing room at a department store in Manhattan, New York City. She later filed a defamation lawsuit following former President Trump denied the allegations and ridiculed her.
However, in a video testimony, former President Trump repeatedly said, “He is a liar and a really sick person. He is mentally ill.”
“He says I did something that never happened. I don’t know anything regarding the lunatic.”
The video testimony was recorded in October of last year and was released in court for the jury that day.
Prior to this, at the trial the previous day, Carol Martin, a former journalist who was a friend of Carol, appeared as a witness and testified regarding what Carol said to her immediately following the sexual assault. Martin said she said that Carol “fighted it”, but that she did not explicitly mention the words ‘she raped’, she said.
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It is likely that former President Trump will not appear in person at this civil trial, but he met with reporters at a golf course in Ireland that day and said, “I will probably attend,” hinting at the possibility of going directly to court.
Meanwhile, at the end of March, former President Trump, who was indicted for the first time as a former or incumbent president of the United States, requested that the criminal trial be conducted in a federal court rather than a New York state district court, the lawyer said on the day.
Former President Trump has claimed that New York District Judge Juan Murchan, who was in charge of his sexual scandal silence payment case, was an “anti-Trump” judge who hated him.
If the court transfer application is accepted, not only Manhattan District Attorney General Alvin Bragg, who led the prosecution, but also federal prosecutors will join the trial process, Bloomberg reported.
However, experts believe that it is very unlikely that such an application will be accepted.
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