ANNUTTER buggering: Pathetic motion for dismissal in the E Jean Carroll case immediately brushed aside, lol

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-tries-bail-himself-rape-131036323.html (How the FUCK has this putz Suck-a-pena won numerous cases for rappers and other deep pocketed defendants???? The guy is a fucking joke, and is doing nothing but pissing off the judge more and more)

Trump Failed to Bail Himself Out of Rape Case With Mistrial Request​

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Ryan Bort
Mon, May 1, 2023 at 6:10 AM PDT

Donald Trump’s asked for a mistrial as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial enters its second week. Joe Tacopina filed the request early Monday morning, arguing that Judge Lewis Kaplan has made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against the former president. Judge Kaplan rejected the request later on Monday.
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Tacopina alleged that the trial, which began in New York City last week, is already “replete with numerous explains of Defendant’s unfair treatment by the Court.” He wants the court to “correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the jury.”

Carroll, a writer who says Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the ’90s, has sued the former president for both defamation, in response to his attacks against her after she made the accusation in 2019, and civil battery.
Carroll delivered powerful testimony in the trial’s opening days last week.
“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me,” she said on Wednesday. “When I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen. He lied and shattered my reputation, and I’m here to try and get my life back.”
Carroll stood her ground when Tacopina cross-examined her a day later. “Not ‘supposedly,'” Carroll responded when the Trump lawyer qualified the alleged assault. “I was raped.”
Tacopina continued to press her, asking why she didn’t scream during the assault. “I’m not a screamer,” she replied. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.” She then took Tacopina to task for the question. “Women don’t come forward,” she said. “One of the reasons they don’t come forward is because they’re always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’ I’m telling you, he raped me whether I screamed or not.”
In the mistrial request, Tacopina alleged Judge Kaplan was siding with Carroll by sustaining objections to Tacopina’s lines of questioning. Judge Kaplan deemed some of Tacopina’s questions “argumentative,” questions Tacopina alleged in the request are “well-established and accepted” ways to cross-examine a witness.
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Judge rebukes Trump's lawyers early and often in sexual assault and defamation trial ​

Writer E. Jean Carroll claims Trump raped her in the mid-'90s and later defamed her by calling the accusation a lie.​

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Caitlin Dickson
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Thu, April 27, 2023 at 5:43 PM PDT


In this courtroom sketch, Joe Tacopina, lawyer for former President Donald Trump, stands in front of U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan and former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll during jury selection in a trial for which Carroll has accused the former president of raping her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)More
NEW YORK — During the first two days of testimony in the civil battery and defamation lawsuit filed against former President Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan repeatedly rebuked Trump’s lawyers.
The lawsuit, which was brought by magazine columnist and author E. Jean Carroll, involves her claim that Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s then defamed her by calling the accusation a lie.
“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it he said it didn’t happen,” Carroll testified Wednesday at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in Lower Manhattan. “He lied and shattered my reputation and I’m here to try to get my life back.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed he never met Carroll (despite having been photographed with her and her then husband at a party in the late ’80s), and crassly asserted that she was “not my type.” In court, his lawyers have sought to paint Carroll as inconsistent and unreliable, suggesting her decisions to publicly accuse, and then sue, the former president were motivated by a desire to sell books and “settle a political score.”
On Wednesday, Carroll was the second witness to take the stand. The first, Cheryl Beall, a former Bergdorf Goodman manager, testified about the layout of the store’s sixth floor, where Carroll says the alleged assault occurred. Beall also told the jury that dressing rooms could have been left open and unattended at the time of the alleged sexual attack.
A former talk show host and writer for “Saturday Night Live,” Carroll elicited a few laughs from the judge and others in the courtroom throughout her sometimes-tearful two days of testimony, during which she described in excruciating detail the alleged assault by Trump, her decision to finally come forward after more than 20 years, and the “wave of slime” she said she received from strangers online after Trump called her a liar.
She also acknowledged that her recollection of some specific details about the attack, including the precise timing of when it occurred, is shaky.
“The date has just been something that I am constantly trying to pin down,” she said. “It’s very difficult.”
The trial is expected to last at least another week and the defense will continue its cross-examination of Carroll on Monday morning. Trump is not legally obligated to attend the trial, but his attorneys have left open the possibility that he may do so. In the meantime, he has already weighed in from the sidelines — prompting one of several rebukes that his attorneys, and in particular lead lawyer Joe Tacopina, have already received from the judge.
Here is a rundown of the most notable examples.
‘Not even close to true’

Carroll answers questions from her lawyer Michael Ferrara. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
On the first day of the trial, Kaplan issued guidance to the lawyers for the plaintiff and defense advising their clients to refrain from making any public statements or social media posts about the case that could incite unrest.
Before testimony began on Wednesday, Carroll’s attorneys informed the judge that, overnight, Trump had posted about the case on his social media platform, Truth Social, in which he called it a “made up SCAM” and a “Witch Hunt” and accused one of Carroll’s lawyers of being a “political operative.”
Trump’s post referenced the dress that Carroll says she was wearing at the time of the alleged rape, writing “The dress should be allowed to be part of the case.”
Kaplan called the post “entirely inappropriate,” and noted that Trump had previously refused requests from Carroll’s lawyers to produce a DNA sample that could be compared against DNA found on the dress.
“That isn’t even close to true,” Kaplan said, referring to Trump’s suggestion that Carroll “didn’t want to produce” the dress.
Kaplan also told Tacopina that it appeared Trump was “basically endeavoring” to speak “to the jury in this case” with his social media posts.
Although Tacopina noted that the jury had already been instructed to avoid all coverage and discussion of the case in the news and on social media, he assured the judge that he would speak to his client and urge him to refrain from making any further statements about the case, though he suggested that he could not make any promises.
“I will do the best I can do, your honor,” Tacopina said. “That’s all I can say.”
Kaplan then went on to warn Tacopina that Trump’s commentary could carry legal consequences.
“We’re getting into an area where, conceivably, your client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability,” Kaplan said, adding, “And I think you know what I mean.”
‘Talk to your client immediately’
By the time court resumed after lunch Wednesday, there was another social media post to discuss, this time from Trump's son Eric.
In a since-deleted post on Twitter, Eric Trump wrote conspiratorially about the fact that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and Democratic donor, had helped fund Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump — a fact that, moments earlier, Kaplan had ruled could not be introduced as evidence in the trial.
Eric suggested that Hoffman’s reported financial involvement in the case, which was made through a nonprofit grant he gave to the law firm representing Carroll, was motivated by “pure hatred, spite or fear of a formidable candidate, is an embarrassment to our country, should be illegal and tells you everything you need to know about the case at hand…”
Tacopina was quick to defend the former president’s son, saying, “Eric Trump didn’t do anything wrong,” because the post appeared to have been published before the judge’s ruling on the funding issue.
Kaplan, however, reminded Tacopina that “I said something this morning about your client perhaps now sailing into harm’s way, conceivable with his son, if what I just heard is true.”
“There are some relevant United States statutes here, and someone on your side ought to be thinking about them,” Kaplan said, adding: “If I were in your shoes, I would talk to your client immediately.”
‘I know just what you’re up to’
As testimony resumed on Wednesday, Trump’s defense team once again received pushback from the judge that was conducted outside the presence of the jury regarding whether Trump’s lawyers should be able to question Carroll about other instances of sexual abuse and violence that she described in her 2019 book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” including an altercation she described involving her ex-husband, John Johnson.
Specifically, Kaplan took issue with Trump’s attorney’s desire to introduce what they referred to as the “cause” of an argument that resulted in Johnson strangling her. In her book, Carroll describes calling Johnson, who is black, “an ape” during the argument.
“It’s relevant,” Tacopina insisted. “He got violent because she called him an ape.”
But Kaplan emphatically disagreed, “the unfair prejudicial effect” of the comment “outrageously outweighs any probative value.”
“To introduce that in front of a mixed-race jury in New York, it is outrageous,” Kaplan told Tacopina, adding: “I know just what you’re up to and I’m not allowing it.”
‘Move it along’
Throughout Tacopina’s cross-examination of Carroll on Thursday afternoon, Kaplan repeatedly urged Tacopina to “move it along” and sustained several objections from Carroll’s lawyers over questions Kaplan described as “repetitive” and “argumentative.”
The judge appeared to grow especially impatient with repeated questions from Tacopina about the fact that Carroll never reported her alleged assault to the police or any authorities.
“The fact that she didn’t go to the police is about as notorious a fact as the Yankees haven’t won a world series in years,” Kaplan said.
“We’ve been up and down the mountain about whether or not she went to the police,” he told Tacopina. “Move on.”

 

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Roasted Blubber Boy, he is FUCKED, like the pig he is. Sounds like this will go to the jury two days from now, gird them loins, Republ-KUNTS, lol:

New Testimony SINKS Trump in Federal Trial​

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Michael Popok of Legal AF breaks down the bombshell news that Trump will not appear and testify against E Jean Carroll, as a new witness testified that E Jean reported the attack within minutes of it happening in 1996, and another witness testified that she was attacked by a “70 zillion hands” Trump on a plane.

 

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After a 3rd woman testifies Trump sexually assaulted her, his lawyers announce they won't call any witnesses​

Journalist Natasha Stoynoff told jurors that Trump forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him at his Mar-a-Lago home in 2005.​

Caitlin Dickson
·Reporter
Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:38 PM PDT·5 min read

Former People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff testifying at the civil battery and defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against former president Donald Trump. (Courtroom sketch by Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
NEW YORK CITY — During Wednesday’s testimony in the civil trial of former President Donald Trump, author and journalist Natasha Stoynoff became the third woman to testify under oath that Trump sexually assaulted her years earlier.
Called as a witness by lawyers representing writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing Trump, Stoynoff took the witness stand at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan. She told the jury about an incident in 2005 during which, she said, Trump forcefully kissed her while she was interviewing him at his Mar-a-Lago estate for an article for People magazine.
Stoynoff testified that she had interviewed Trump several times over the phone and in person during for the magazine, and that he had never made physical advances. That changed, she told the jury, during her trip to Mar-a-Lago in December 2005, when Stoynoff was assigned to do a piece on Trump’s first marriage anniversary with his wife, Melania, who was then pregnant with the couple’s son, Barron.
Choking back tears, Stoynoff told the jury that she spent the day at Mar-a-Lago, conducting interviews with Trump and Melania while they both were being photographed outside by the pool. During a break, she said, Melania went upstairs to change clothes and Trump asked her to go inside because he wanted to show her “a really great room.”
She recounted how he led her into the room and heard him close the door behind them. By the time she turned around, she said, Trump was pushing her against the wall and was kissing her. She told the jury she pushed him away but he came toward her again.
Carroll attorney Michael Ferrara asked her if she screamed or said anything during the assault.
“I didn’t say words. I couldn’t. I tried. No words came out. I tried,” she responded.
The whole encounter lasted just a few minutes, Stoynoff testified, and was interrupted when a butler came into the room to tell them that Melania was ready for their joint interview.
Stoynoff said they went back out into the backyard and Trump said to her “you know we’re going to have an affair don’t you?” before Melania joined them and he began doting on her.
“I was so shocked, flustered. I couldn’t speak,” Stoynoff told the jury, adding that she went into “autopilot” in order to complete the interview.
“It was not easy,” she said. “I had to get my work done.”
Afterward, Stoynoff said she told a close friend and a former journalism professor about her encounter with Trump. She also told her direct superior at work, who was also a close friend, but she didn’t tell anyone else higher up at the magazine for fear that they’d kill her story and Trump would retaliate, she testified.
“I was ashamed and humiliated about what happened,” Stoynoff said.
Stoynoff, who is originally from Canada, said she is “not at all” politically active and has only voted in 3 U.S. presidential elections since becoming an American citizen in her 30s. Her decision to speak publicly about the assault came about after Trump’s entry into the 2016 presidential race.
“I wanted to warn the American people,” she testified.
Just as Jessica Leeds, a second witness called by Carroll’s lawyers, testified a day earlier about an alleged sexual assault by Trump, the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape that captured Trump bragging about sexually assaulting other women also provided motivation for Stoynoff to come forward.
Through tears, Stoynoff testified that when she saw the tape, she thought, “Oh he does this to a lot of women ... it’s not just me. It’s not something I did.”
Carroll’s lawyers sought to show the jury that Trump engaged in a pattern of behavior similar to the sexual assault they say their client suffered in the mid-1990s, when Carroll says Trump raped her in a changing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan following a chance encounter.
Trump has steadfastly denied the claims made by Carroll, Leeds and Stoynoff, but Carroll’s lawyers also introduced the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape to the jury during Stoynoff’s testimony.
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” Trump was heard saying on the tape played to the jury, “Grab them by the pussy.”
At the conclusion of Stoynoff’s testimony, the jury heard more from Trump, though not in person. Carroll’s lawyers presented video-taped excerpts of the October deposition given by the former president. In the clip, Trump could be seen sitting hunched over a table, his arms crossed, speaking in a low tone and occasionally mumbling.
Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan could be heard off screen questioning Trump about his relationships outside of his marriage to his first wife Ivana, including his affair with Marla Maples, which Trump denied that he had been public about, despite widespread media coverage.
Kaplan also asked Trump whether he shopped at Bergdorf Goodman at the time of the alleged assault on Carroll.
“It’s possible I was there, but I don’t know that I ever shopped there for myself,” he replied.
On Tuesday, the jury heard from a former Bergdorf Goodman employee who testified he had seen Trump in the women’s section of the store on two occasions.
While Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina told Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday that the former president would not be appearing in court to rebut the claims made against him in the case; a videotaped deposition did, at least, give Trump the chance to deny them.
“It’s the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” Trump said in the video. “It’s made up.”
Tacopina also relayed to the judge that the defense would not call any witnesses to back up Trump’s assertions of innocence.
Kaplan then informed the jury: “I think you can reasonably expect to get the case early next week.”

 

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Trump Rushes Back To New York As His Lawyer Botches Assault Trial ​

81,029 views May 5, 2023 Farron Balanced

Donald Trump has decided to cut his trip to Ireland short in order to rush back to New York to "confront" E. Jean Carroll in the ongoing assault trial. He didn't give a specific reason, other than she's allegedly saying mean things and lying, but it doesn't take a genius to realize what's happening: Trump's lawyers have botched the case from the start, and Trump is getting pissed. Farron Cousins explains what's going on.

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. Well, folks, the Eugene Carroll assault lawsuit that she filed against Donald Trump is wrapping up today. The jury is off. Yeah, get the day off. Nice little Friday, four day work week. That's pretty awesome. They don't have to be there. But the lawyers, of course do have to be there because today the judge is gonna go over with them, the jury instructions that the jury will be given next week. On Monday, closing arguments are going to commence. Eugene Carroll's team will have two hours, Trump's defense will then have two and a half hours for their closing arguments. Then Eugene Carroll's folks will have an additional 30 minutes to give the last word in the closing argument rebuttal. But before we even get to that part, there's been a couple interesting developments. For example, on Wednesday of this week, the second to last day of the full trial, Donald Trump lawyer Joe Taina, could not have fumbled things worse in addition to announcing on Wednesday that he just wasn't going to call any witnesses at all. And the one witness he was gonna call decided not to come forward because they, they got a health issue. They're sick. So Taina says, you know what? Nah, I'm not gonna call any witnesses. And Taina also said, nah, we're not gonna present any evidence to show that our client is innocent. So nobody's gonna testify on his behalf. Nobody's gonna come forward with any evidence to show he is innocent. So, yeah, I think our work here is done. Are are, are you, are you kidding me? Like, are you kidding me? I have worked in the legal field at one of the best law firms in the country for, for nearly 20 years. Man, that's unheard of. Except in cases where the other side has no case, that is the only time you see them not call any witnesses, not produce any evidence at all when they know they have no case. That's pretty bad. But it got even worse on Wednesday as well, because it turns out that Joe Taina apparently didn't even wanna be there. He was there, don't get me wrong. He did show up, but they had a, a slew of witnesses come in, including a, uh, mental health expert who talked about, and she was an expert witness for the plaintiff. Talked about her reaction. Eugene Carrolls to the alleged assault, where earlier in the trial was determined. She, she laughed during it. Um, and the mental health professional said, that's actually on par with people going through trauma, is the, you know, inappropriate response to it, right? Their brain cannot necessarily process. And so it goes to these very odd, weird reactions. Taina tried to attack the expert witness by saying, they're paying you for your testimony, aren't they? And she's like, yeah, which by the way, is, is how expert witnesses Work. You have to pay these people for their time. So that's not a gotcha. That's just pointing out how the court system works. Then of course, you had the People magazine reporter who gave her testimony where she alleged that Donald Trump, uh, pulled her in the back at Mar-a-Lago, started forcibly kissing her, but he only stopped when a butler walked in. And all Taina could ask during his cross examination was, did you ever file a report about it? She said, no, I did not. I was, I was shocked. I was scared. I didn't know what to do. And he is like, all right. That was it. And then he got even weirder because Taina from day one of this trial, by the way, has fumbled things so badly that Donald Trump came out, he's in Ireland inspecting his properties. And he was like, I got, I gotta get back to New York City. Like, I gotta go. And he says he's gonna confront this woman, Eugene Carroll. Let me, let me, let me just read, let me just read what Donald Trump said. I'm going back to New York. I'll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false.