Columnist E. Jean Carroll on Monday likened former President Trump to a “snorting walrus” and described being in the same room as Trump for the first time since the late 1990s, when he sexually abused her. accused of receiving it. At a department store.
Surrounded by two lawyers, Sean Crowley and Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan, Carroll told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that she was “nobody” and “there’s no need to be afraid of him.” Ta.
“Like you said, this team of talented young men came together to take on this guy. By the way, Rachel wasn’t even there. He’s nothing,” she said. said. “He has nothing. He is like a walrus snorting and a rhinoceros flapping his hands.”
Carroll recently won an $83.3 million verdict from a jury in a defamation lawsuit against Trump, and last year she won a $5 million verdict in a separate lawsuit in which she found Trump liable for defamation and sexual assault. won. However, Trump did not appear in court during that trial.
Asked if she was surprised he had so little power in court, Carroll said she felt “terrified” ahead of the trial.
“No, Rachel, I was scared. When I was preparing for the trial, I was just a sweat gland. And then three or four days before the trial, I actually got sick.” she said. “I lost the ability to speak. I lost words. I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t go on. That’s — that’s how scared I was.”
“But strangely enough, we went to court,” Carroll continued. “Robbie got up to the podium. So I sat down in the witness box. And she said, “Good morning, Carol. Could you please spell your name for the court?’ …And to his surprise, he looked outside and there was nothing there.”
She added: “He was nothing. He was a vision.”
The former president, who attended the trial voluntarily, vowed to appeal the jury’s verdict, calling it “absolutely ridiculous.” But Trump will not have to pay Carroll until he exhausts his appeal options, according to reports.
Carroll also said Monday that she would “absolutely” sue Trump again if her lawyer told her there was a possibility of another lawsuit.
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