During a press conference in NYC, #Trump gave rambling remarks in which he made #gross references to 2 women who claim he sexually abused them. His comments came shortly after oral arguments concluded for the day in Trump’s #appeal of the #verdict in #EJeanCarroll’s #SexualAbuse & #defamation case against him.
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#Trump’s lawyers argued in court Fri that #EJeanCarroll’s 2023 #rape trial was tainted by the other allegations. While attempting to follow their lead to downplay Carroll’s claims, Trump recapped the accusations 2 women made against him during the trial—as if that would somehow make him seem less #guilty.
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“There were 2 witnesses. 1 is a woman who followed me for years,” #Trump said, talking about #JessicaLeeds, who told jurors at #EJeanCarroll’s civil trial that Trump had groped her on a plane to NYC in the 1970s.
“There was no conversation. It was like out of the blue. It was like a tussle,” Leeds said at trial.
Trump’s characterization of the interaction was quite a bit different: “She said in 1979 I was in an airplane with her, commercial flight, & … we became very intimate,” Trump said.
As he told the story, #Trump interrupted himself to say, “I was famous then too. I’ve been famous for a long time,” apropos of nothing. Later Trump tried to return to this point, dismissing the claims, saying, “It’s very funny, when you’re rich & famous, you get lot of people come up w/a lot of stories.” Combined, Trump’s remarks sounded eerily like his infamous Access Hollywood tape, where he said “when you’re a star they let you” grab their genitals.
