Key takeaways:
- Lisa Birnbach, a longtime friend of E. Jean Carroll, testified that Carroll called her “minutes” after the alleged rape occurred in a Manhattan department store.
- Birnbach described Carroll as sounding “breathless, hyperventilating” and “emotional” during the phone call.
- The testimony of Carroll and her witnesses is a powerful reminder of the importance of believing survivors of sexual assault.
A woman who claims to have been molested by Donald Trump in the late 1970s testified in federal court on Tuesday in support of the writer who alleges that a 1996 encounter with the future president ended in a violent sexual attack.
The witness, a longtime friend of E. Jean Carroll’s, testified that Carroll called her “minutes” after the alleged rape occurred in a Manhattan department store. The testimony was part of Carroll’s three-day testimony in which she claimed Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in midtown.
The friend, Lisa Birnbach, a fellow writer who had recently interviewed Trump, described Carroll as sounding “breathless, hyperventilating” and “emotional” during the phone call. Birnbach said Carroll told her she’d been shopping with Trump in Bergdorf Goodman before he accosted her in a dressing room and “penetrated” her.
Carroll publicly aired her claims against Trump in 2019, when she published a memoir. The testimony of Birnbach and other witnesses was meant to support Carroll’s claims.
The case is ongoing and it is unclear what the outcome will be. However, the testimony of Carroll and her witnesses is a powerful reminder of the importance of believing survivors of sexual assault.
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