WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who accused US President Donald Trump of raping her for more than 23 years in a New York department store has filed a lawsuit against him over comments he made in June denying the attack and criticizing her for the allegation.
E. She said. Jane Carroll, a longtime columnist at Elle magazine, complained in New York State Court in Manhattan that Trump lied about the attack and slandered her honesty, credibility and honesty by fabricating a series of lies to explain the possible reasons for her fabrication. »According to her.
In June, New York magazine published excerpts from the alleged rape novel from Carroll's diary, which was published a month later. Carroll says the rape took place in Bergdorf Goodman, Fifth Avenue, between the fall of 1995 and spring 1996.
Carroll's case followed remarks by Trump, following the publication of her novel, that he had never raped Carroll and never met her, and that she was "totally lying."
The former US ambassador to Ukraine, Mary Jovanovich, said she felt threatened to discover the contents of a telephone conversation between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, as part of the investigation of the isolation proceedings against the US president. Every hearing we get additional information about the president's attempts to use power for his own benefit. ”