In closing argument, attorney for E. Jean Carroll says she was 'exactly' Trump's type
E. Jean Carroll "was exactly" Donald Trump's type, an attorney for Carroll said Monday during closing statements in the former president's defamation and battery trial. E. Jean Carroll "was exactly" Donald Trump's type and he sexually assaulted her the very way he described treating women on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape, an attorney for Carroll told jurors Monday during closing statements in Trump's civil defamation and battery trial. Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in his 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. The former Elle magazine columnist added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the st...