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i could care less about dylan. but you guys are using woke to try and rewrite history in florida and who knows where else. it is an admired thing that unfortunately some will mess up on. it appears to have hurt their profits and folks were let go or sus pended i forget. but we all need to call out injust wherever it raises it's ugly head instead of ignoring it and letting things get worse. thanx for the example.

Judge warns Trump to stop posting after he derides rape trial as ‘SCAM’ and mocks E. Jean Carroll for not screaming Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News 3–4 minutes A judge warned former president Donald Trump Wednesday to stop posting on social media after he derided the civil rape trial as a “SCAM” and mocked E. Jean Carroll for not screaming during the alleged attack. Judge Lewis Kaplan called the posts “totally inappropriate” and told Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina to get the former president to keep quiet about the case. “[Trump] may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability,” Kaplan said, suggesting he could hold Trump in contempt of court. “And I think you know what I mean.” Tacopina vowed to have a chat with Trump, who is a notoriously difficult client to control. - ADVERTISEMENT - Trump isn’t expected to testify at the civil rape case filed by Carroll — or even show up to face his accuser. But that hasn’t stopped him from taking to social media to mock the writer for supposedly not screaming when he allegedly attacked her in a midtown Manhattan department store changing room three decades ago. “She didn’t scream? There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this? She never made a police complaint? SCAM!” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Does anybody believe that I would take a then-almost 60 year old woman .. into a tiny dressing room, and …. her,” he added. Trump derided Carroll as “Miss Bergdorf Goodman,” a reference to the Fifth Ave. department store in which she claims the attack took place. Trump also accused Carroll of being a political operative, a charge that Kaplan had warned against raising in public. The outburst from Trump came as testimony began in the trial in a lower Manhattan courtroom. Trump hasn’t ruled out testifying, but legal experts believe it is highly unlikely he would subject himself to cross-examination under oath. Trump has called Carroll a “nut job” who fabricated the rape claim to sell her book. Tacopina told jurors Tuesday that her story was wildly implausible and short of evidence. Lawyers for Carroll and Trump delivered opening statements Tuesday in the explosive case, which took about five years to reach trial. Along with myriad other legal woes, the civil trial stands to test Trump’s reputation for beating courtroom threats to his business and political empire. It comes a month after he became the first former president to face criminal charges when he was indicted in an unrelated criminal case surrounding payments made to bury accounts of alleged extramarital sex with porn star Stormy Daniels. Carroll’s suit is a civil case, meaning there is no chance Trump will be sent to prison. The onetime advice columnist is seeking unspecified monetary damages and a retraction of Trump statements that she alleges were defamatory.

yahoo.com Judge makes thinly-veiled attempt to silence Trump during rape trial, advising parties against statements that could 'incite violence' Ashley Collman 3–4 minutes Former President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll.AP/AP E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge asked both parties not to make statements that could "incite violence." The judge previously expressed concerns the jury could be harassed by Trump's supporters. The judge presiding over a rape claim lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday made a thinly-veiled attempt to stop Trump from publicly commenting on the case. Opening statements are expected to kick off today in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and rape lawsuit against Trump. Trump has denied her allegations and was absent in the courtroom as the jury was selected on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Before potential jurors were brought into the room, US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan asked attorneys for both sides to advise their clients against "making any statements that will incite violence or civil unrest." Kaplan said the warning was not meant to accuse either side of misconduct, but in order to "try to avoid problems down the road." As of 2:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, Trump had not weighed in on the case on Truth Social or Facebook. When reached for comment, Steven Cheung, commications director for the Trump campaign, issued the following statement: "This latest fake case has no merit or facts and is just another part of the witch hunt targeted to interfere and tamper with a Presidential election. The radical, deranged Democrats will stop at nothing in order to prevent the American people from choosing President Donald Trump— the overwhelming front runner by far— as their 47th President. The lunatics will fail and President Trump will Make America Great Again!" Kaplan had previously expressed concern over the potential that those selected to serve on the jury in the case could face "harassment or worse" from Trump's supporters. So last month he ordered that the jury would be anonymous, meaning that their names will not be released and that they will be ferried to the court every day by US Marshals from a secret location. The jury was selected Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m. Opening statements will begin Tuesday afternoon. The lawsuit stems from Carroll's allegation that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. She's suing him for the alleged act itself, and for defamation — for his comments calling her story a "hoax and a lie" in a post on Truth Social in October. She wants Trump to retract his statements and for the jury to award her unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. While Carroll, a longtime Elle advice columnist, says she told two friends shortly after the alleged assault, she never went public with the story until June 2019, in an essay for New York magazine. When Trump loudly denied her claim in statements to the press — saying Carroll was not his "type" and that she made up the story to sell her memoir — Carroll sued him for defamation. In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist." Read the original article on Business Insider

why is it many on here dissed to notre dame QB? bama is looking to offer him a scholly if they have not already done so. unless this kids dad and nick are friends why would nick offer if he is no good? what am i missing here? different O systems?

not only alabama but this country is swimming in blood. it breaks my heart. but hell lets put more guns on the street.it will certainly make it easier on law enforcement right?

yahoo.com He may be older, but President Biden has what Trump and DeSantis sorely lack: substance | Opinion Fabiola Santiago 5–7 minutes President Joe Biden is running for re-election, and now that he’s made it official — casting aside the consideration that he’s 80 — I couldn’t be happier for GOP-hijacked Florida. Biden can get away with ending a two-term presidency at 86. A woman couldn’t. However, Biden’s a white establishment male, and here’s an opportunity to put privilege to work for the greater good. Red states like ours need the federal protection Biden’s reelection would bring against unabashed and contagious fascism, racism, fanaticism, idolatry for one-party rule — and guns. Moderate Biden may be older, but he has what the two leading 2024 Republican contenders, former President Donald Trump, 76, and youthful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 44, sorely lack: substance, experience, humanity and basic decency guiding policy. Plus, an integral part of Biden’s character is the philosophy that this is a free and democratic country for all, not only for people of one religious persuasion, which is what DeSantis’ ballyhooed “freedom” stands for. Neither a disgraced ex-president under a mountain of legal trouble nor a dank, dictatorial governor would be a match for a younger Biden. But, despite the advances of medicine and Biden’s healthy lifestyle, ageism remains an integral part of the culture. The race may come down to whether we value personal freedoms more than prejudice. Biden doesn’t need Florida Florida needs Biden, but Biden doesn’t need Florida, the 2020 election and 2022 midterms proved. Trump and DeSantis’ popularity in Florida rose on the heels of a deteriorating Democratic Party, lost to internal malaise, division, and the taking for granted that Black and Latino voters would remain loyal, no matter what. Biden hasn’t brought people back to the party from the throes of fanaticism, but Gen Z is rising, and ironically, it may the youngest voters who re-elect Grandpa. Biden lost Florida and still won the presidency. Floridians, however, lost civil rights and peace of mind. That shouldn’t be lost on national voters. The state’s purple standing meant politicians of different persuasions had to earn our vote. A dominant, one-party system with guaranteed wins in partisan redrawn districts has left a trail of unpopular mandates, like a six-week abortion ban. It’s no accident that no matter the growing number of other Republicans vying for the nomination, the leading candidates are from Florida. Under DeSantis, the state has become the national poster child for all that’s wrong with today’s GOP. For one, it’s no longer the small-government party. It’s the party that dictates what medical decisions a family can make about basic reproductive health and the well-being of trans and gay children. Obstetrics and pediatrics may be fields that require extensive expertise, but in Florida, debunked science and religion are the basis for restrictive medical legislation. Will the nation stand for Republicans imposing whom you’re allowed to be and to love? Exerting cruel and life-threatening influence over what happens under the sheets and to the parent-child relationship is as intrusive as it gets. Where Trump and DeSantis stoke their brand of “anti-woke” hate and division — turning once laid-back Florida into a boiling pot of unhappy people who don’t get along — Biden deliberately prioritizes inclusion and still seeks bipartisanship against the odds. Where Trump and DeSantis — mentor and disciple gone rogue — are both vindictive politicians, Biden has delivered billions in federal dollars to the same Florida that shunned him at the ballot box . He visited during the Hurricane Ian and Surfside condo collapse disasters to genuinely interact with victims and first responders. In fact, whether for disaster relief, infrastructure projects or post-pandemic economic recovery, Biden delivered resources that Republican elected officials — including DeSantis and members of Congress who voted against those Biden initiatives — have claimed as victories for themselves. Just imagine DeSantis — on a crusade to destroy the Disney Company for the mere crime of having a different opinion from him on one LGBTQ issue — operating this way from the White House. Scary, dangerous. In lockstep To Floridians who support them, Trump and DeSantis may be demigods and Biden the devil himself — but both are disastrous national figures. The president who almost stole American democracy — a New Yorker despite the glow of his Sunshine State lair, Mar-a-lago — doesn’t deserve another shot. And DeSantis is an unsophisticated North Floridian, despite the geographical influences he claims in his book to give himself national scope and the foreign travels he’s on this week. Then, there’s Biden, who looks pretty darn quixotic and hip telling the nation that he’s not too old for this. “Let’s finish the job,” he said Tuesday. I, too, thought he might be too old. Now, I say, Party on, chief. Biden can win again without Florida. The only thing the state has going for it are retrograde policies harking back to the segregated 1950s and politicians blatantly sidelining science, democracy and diverse constituencies because they think it’s the winning ticket. Biden is counting on the saner, silent, savvier side of America to prevail. As for his age, I’ll have whatever Joe is taking to stay trim, fit and energetic, please. Santiago

to be fair mims i have always you are one of many that do not care for me. i have always felt that. my apologies sir.

i have faith so far in coach freeze. so many things on the portal. entitled players that might be disruptive in the locker room. nil guys that want to make nfl money before they even sniff the nil. grades. there are a million reasons out there and i refuse to trash coach without proof. i mean come on. coach and staff have already performed a miracle so i believe the fault lies elsewhere. of course this is my opinion ainsy. am i i missing anything bro?

si.com Three names to watch as Auburn football looks for its next commitment Jack Singley 4–5 minutes These three high school prospects could join the 2024 Auburn recruiting class. The recruits have been coming in under the new Freeze staff and as we reach the six-month mark of the Freeze administration, he and the staff have been relentless on the trail. The 2023 class saw 24 new commits come in after the hiring of Freeze. There were 12 high school and JUCO recruits and 12 transfers that came to Auburn after November 29, 2022. The 2024 recruiting class has been no different. The only commits that Auburn had in the 24' class when Freeze arrived were DB A'mon Lane and Quarterback Adrian Posse. Posse later de-committed and Freeze turned around and gained the commitment of four-star Walter White not even a month later. Carnell Williams is continuing his run of getting his guy, as J'Marion Burnette committed to the Tigers in March. DB Jayden Lewis and TE Martavious Collins are also in this class, with Collins committing earlier this month. The question now is, who is next? There are a few guys who I believe would be candidates to be the next Auburn Tiger commit. 1. Cam Coleman The recruiting experts always say, "Follow the visits", and with Coleman that leads him to be an Auburn Tiger. Coleman has visited Auburn four times this year, once on the LSU game, and then three times within a span of four weeks. Coleman visited in back-to-back weeks and then two weeks following that went to A-Day. Coleman was recently upgraded to a composite five-star on 247, which means that the overall rating across all services ranks him as a five-star. Coleman will take an official visit to the Plains. 2. Joseph Phillips Phillips is one of the defensive staff's main priorities, as his edge-rushing abilities are a big need in this class. The Tuskegee native has been a frequent visitor to Auburn just like Coleman, four visits for Phillips this year shows that not only is the staff a fan of him but he is a fan of the staff. Phillips is a middle-ranked four-star who racked up 75 tackles, 19 tackles for loss, and nine sacks. Phillips has not decided on an official visit date for the Tigers. 3. Perry Thompson The second five-star on this list, Thompson is ranked as the third player in Alabama and the sixth wide receiver in the country. Thompson, unlike Phillips and Coleman, is committed to a team already. Thompson has been a part of the Alabama 2024 recruiting class since July 2022. This commitment to the Tide has not stopped the Foley native from showing interest in Auburn, as Thompson has been to Auburn four times since receiving an offer from Marcus Davis on January 11th, 2023. Thompson most recently caught the eyes of some people for sitting in the rain to watch the A-Day game on April 8th. Thompson has set an official visit with the Tigers. The big day for these recruits could be in December, but following the visits and the activity they have had with the staff, a commitment in the summer does seem possible. Freeze has turned a program that had not signed a five-star since 2019, to having two five-stars be seen as potential commits. The program is on an upward trajectory and the recruiting seems to be following that track.

this cat makes sick as well. a crappy christian role model as well. man the repubs sure have a lot of crooks, liars. and power hungry that would put personal enrichment ahead of the xountry like trump did.

New Audio Shows Ted Cruz Scheming to Steal 2020 Election Matt Young 4–5 minutes Leah Millis/Reuters MSNBC aired more whistleblower audio of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Tuesday, this time dissecting a tape that appears to feature him plotting to overthrow the 2020 election—well before the events of Jan. 6. The revelations come courtesy of Fox whistleblower Abby Grossberg, who provided the tapes to MSNBC host Ari Melber. According to the files, Cruz reportedly tried to sell his plan to Fox host and Trump ally Maria Bartiromo on Jan. 2—four days before the Capitol riot—pitching a scheme to overthrow the 2020 election by blocking the certification of Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, then establishing a commission to investigate the nonexistent claims of fraud which would ultimately “decide” who to inaugurate. “As we were looking at this Jan. 6 certification, all of the options that were being discussed were problematic,” Cruz explains. “And so I wanted to find a path that was consistent with the Constitution and the law, and that address these very real serious claims.” Airing the audio, Melber explains that when Bartiromo asks Cruz who would eventually decide who gets inaugurated under his plan, “Cruz answers that this fake, made up, so-called commission that he and his Trump buddies were planning to try to create to bureaucratize a coup—and that’s what they were trying to do—that was his answer, that’s how they would steal this race.” The claims in the recording add detail to previous statements made by the Texas Republican—who the same day as his phone call with Bartiromo released a statement outlining a bare-bones plan to challenge the 2020 election results on Jan. 6. Cruz subsequently blasted MSNBC’s coverage Tuesday, tweeting: “This @msnbc is breathlessly reporting that I ‘secretly’ said in a phone call…the EXACT same thing I said on national television the next morning! And then said again on the Senate floor four days later.” In a tweet in response to The Daily Beast’s story, Steve Guest, Special Advisor for Communications for Cruz, referred to a joint statement released by the Texas Republican and six other GOP senators released on Jan. 2, 2021, the same day Cruz spoke with Bartiromo. The statement outlines his plans to challenge the 2020 election results on Jan. 6. “Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.” “Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.” Last week, The Beat aired audio of a conversation between Cruz and Bartiromo in November 2020 which stressed the importance of network guests coming on air with facts to support their claims about widespread voter fraud. “It can’t just be, you know, somebody tweeted this,” Cruz told Bartiromo on Nov. 7, the same day the election was called for Joe Biden by all major networks. “It’s got to be demonstrable facts that can be laid out with evidence because that’s what a court of law is going to look to—not just an allegation but actual fact.” Grossberg said in a separate interview on MSNBC Tuesday that she has at least 90 more unaired recordings that she needs to review.

Trump brutally raped E. Jean Carroll in 1990s and sought to ‘destroy and humiliate’ her when she spoke out, NYC jury hears at bombshell trial Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News 6–8 minutes NEW YORK — Donald Trump slammed a woman against a wall in a Midtown department store in the mid-1990s, raped her, and then sought to “destroy and humiliate” her when she came forward, a Manhattan jury heard in opening arguments Tuesday in writer E. Jean Carroll’s bombshell civil rape case against the former president. Standing before a jury in Manhattan Federal Court, plaintiff lawyer Shawn Crowley described Carroll’s encounter with Trump in the spring of 1996, which began as Carroll was walking out of Bergdorf Goodman in Midtown Manhattan. “They started chatting. Trump asked Ms. Carroll to help him pick out a gift for a woman. She agreed, thinking it would make for a funny story,” Crowley said. After making their way up to the empty sixth floor to the lingerie department on the escalators, Trump walked over to the counter, picked up a lace bodysuit, and tossed it to Carroll. Crowley said they joked about trying it on. “Still laughing, they moved to the dressing room, with Carroll thinking, he might actually try on this lingerie,” Crowley said. “The moment they went inside, everything changed. Suddenly, nothing was funny. Donald Trump slammed Ms. Carroll against the wall. He pressed his lips against hers. She struggled to break free but couldn’t. Trump was almost twice her size. He held down her arm, pulled down her tights and then he sexually assaulted her,” Crowley said. “He was a big man — had easily 100 pounds on her. And he was determined,” Crowley later said, describing the sexual assault and rape in graphic detail. Crowley said Carroll, who plans to testify at the trial, escaped after a few minutes and fled the store onto Fifth Avenue. Crowley said Trump slandered Carroll when she came forward decades later when he was positioned as the most powerful person in the world, branding “her as a liar and a fraud.” “Donald Trump’s response was explosive,” Crowley said, describing how “he went on the attack seeking to destroy and humiliate” her. “The evidence will show that when President Trump called E. Jean Carroll a liar, people listened, and her hard-earned reputation as a journalist and a writer took a serious hit,” Crowley said. “He even said, ‘Ms. Carroll must be lying, because,’ — I’m quoting here — ‘she’s not my type.’ ... He was saying she was too ugly to assault.” After Trump left the White House, Carroll’s lawyer said, Trump “saw fit to drag her name through the mud again.” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina blasted Carroll in his opening argument, calling her a liar and accusing her and the friends she told about the alleged assault of scheming to politically hurt Trump. Tacopina said Carroll had the “absolute time of her life” after going public with her allegations, which he said she fabricated to sell a book. “Him calling her a liar was the truth,” Tacopina said. “He never raped her and he never defamed her.” The bombastic defense attorney, who’s also representing Trump in his criminal case, said Carroll and her friends “hated Donald Trump, loathed” him. “So who would make up a story like this and who would go along with it?” Tacopina says. “People with a political bent. People with a financial motive. And people who desire to be in the spotlight. That’s who would make up a sick story like this.” Tacopina told jurors that regardless of how much apathy they feel for the former president, those feelings should stay outside the courtroom. “People have very strong feelings about Donald Trump, one way or the other,” Tacopina said. “It’s okay to feel however you feel. You can hate Donald Trump. It’s OK. But there’s a time and a secret place for that, for you to express those feelings. It’s called a ballot box.” The opening statements came hours after a panel of six men and three women were selected to serve as jurors. Carroll arrived at the courthouse just before 9 a.m. Trump did not turn up for the first day of his case. Tacopina told the judge he didn’t know if Trump would be present for any of the trial. Before openings, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan told jurors their identities would remain anonymous. He advised them not to tell each other their real names. They will be escorted to and from the courthouse by U.S. Marshals while the case plays out. Kaplan advised the panelists not to tell their friends or family what case they’re judging if they are selected. In ruling the jury would be anonymous, the judge previously cited statements Trump has made attacking officials involved in his various legal cases and their potential to incite violence and civil unrest. “The goal is to protect you in every way,” Kaplan said. Judge Kaplan told the jurors they would be tasked with determining what did or didn’t happen at the department store, whether Carroll was raped or sexually assaulted, and whether and to what extent she should be compensated. The case is one in a litany of legal challenges facing Trump as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. He has been hit with 34 felony charges related to the infamous hush money payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. And he is being sued by the New York attorney general for rampant business fraud. He is also being criminally investigated in Georgia for trying to subvert the 2020 election and by special counsel Jack Smith for taking classified documents from the White House. Carroll, 79, a former advice columnist for the magazine Elle, has waited five years to make her case to a jury. Her initial 2019 suit against Trump is still tied up with appeals. The case now on trial was filed in November as the first brought under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, historic legislation that lifted the statute of limitations to bring sexual assault claims for one year. Carroll has said she was never intimate with a man again after the disturbing encounter with Trump, which she kept quiet about for decades out of fear he would ruin her reputation. Friends she told in the aftermath are slated to testify, as are two women who have accused Trump of sexual assault. “One told her to call the police. The other told her not to say a word. She warned Ms. Carroll that Trump would ruin her life,” Crowley said. “Filled with fear and shame, she kept silent for decades.” ———

Auburn offeres veteran edge transfer Isaac Ukwu JD McCarthy ~2 minutes The Auburn Tigers are still looking to build depth at the jack linebacker spot and a new transfer target has emerged. Isaac Ukwu has spent the past six seasons at James Madison before entering the transfer portal on Tuesday. The 6-foot-3, 260-pounder picked an Auburn offer up just two hours after announcing his plans to transfer. He arrived in 2017 and took a redshirt before appearing in three games in 2018. He then missed both 2019 and 2020 with injuries before returning with a vengeance in 2021, being named Second Team All-CAA. He was even better last season, making First Team All-Sun Belt Conference. Ukwu totaled 83 tackles, 27.0 tackles for loss, 16.5 sacks, three forced fumbles, and one fumble recovery over the past two seasons. The Tigers are set to have four players at the jack linebacker spot but redshirt Dylan Brooks is the only returning player after the departures of Derick Hall, Eku Leota, Marcus Bragg, and Joko Willis. Auburn has brought in Vanderbilt transfer Elijah McCallister and freshmen Keldric Faulk and Brenton Williams but is looking to add one more experienced transfer, something Ukwu has plenty of. More Football! Auburn named a 'potential landing spot' for Notre Dame QB Tyler Buchner Auburn football ranks bottom-tier in USA TODAY's post-spring power rankings Jeffrey M'Ba commits to Big Ten school DraftNetwork breaks down four best fits for Derick Hall Contact/Follow us @TheAuburnWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow JD on Twitter @jdmccarthy15. Story originally appeared on Auburn Wire

Open in app or online E. Jean Carroll is a boss E. Jean Carroll didn’t have to put herself through any of this. Jeff Tiedrich Apr 26 Share E. Jean Carroll didn’t have to put herself through any of this. Upgrade to paid she could have, as have so many women before her, tried to forget it ever happened. she could have said nothing. she could have done her best to tamp down the memory of the day that vile pig assaulted her. but she didn’t. she spoke out. she named his name. and she filed suit. a brave act. brave because speaking out cost her her job. brave because her good name is now being dragged through the right-wing press. brave because the gross deviant who violated her is rich and powerful. he is fueled by spite. he is obsessed with revenge. he is a destroyer of lives. but E. Jean doesn’t care. she wants justice. right now, in a courtroom in Manhattan, a jury is listening to the facts of the case. let’s hope that maybe, just maybe, for once in his privileged pampered life, this despicable degenerate is held accountable for his disgusting actions. E. Jean Carroll, thank you. everyone is entitled to my own opinion is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

It is a shame she cannot remember the dates it happened as i bet trump gets off. i guess nola would know more about this or any other lawyers on here.

yahoo.com 'Trump raped me,' E. Jean Carroll testifies in battery, defamation case AARON KATERSKY 6–8 minutes E. Jean Carroll, on the first day of testimony in her civil defamation and battery case against former President Donald Trump, told the jury that she first met Trump in 1987 -- but she struggled to pinpoint the year that she alleges he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store. Carroll, who brought the lawsuit in November, alleges that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations. MORE: Trump 'lunged at her,' E. Jean Carroll's lawyer tells jury in battery, defamation case "When do you believe Donald Trump assaulted you?" her attorney, Mike Ferrara, asked Carroll during her testimony Wednesday. "This question, the when, the when, the date, has been something I've constantly trying to pin down," Carroll said. At first she said she thought it was 1994 or 1995, but she said her friend Lisa Birnbach published an article about Trump for New York magazine in February 1996. "Lisa never would have gone down to Mar-a-Lago ... if she knew what Donald Trump had done to me," Carroll said, leading her to believe the alleged attack occurred in 1996. PHOTO: Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll walks into Manhattan federal court, April 25, 2023, in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP) In her opening statement, Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley suggested the lack of specificity doesn't matter. "While Ms. Carroll doesn't remember exactly when this happened, she remembers almost every detail of what happened, and her testimony alone will be enough for you to find Donald Trump liable in this case," Crowley said. The defense told the jury those details matter. "She can't tell you the date that she claims to have been raped. She can't tell you the month that she claims to have been raped. She can't tell you the season. She can't even tell you the year that she claims to have been raped by Donald Trump," defense attorney Joe Tacopina said during his opening statement. "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me," Carroll said at the start of her testimony. "And 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." Trump has denied all allegations that he raped Carroll or defamed her. MORE: E. Jean Carroll requests Trump's DNA related to sexual assault allegation Earlier Wednesday, the jury heard from the former general manager at the Bergdorf Goodman women's store. Cheryl Beal, who worked for the department store in the mid-1990s, testified regarding the store's layout, including the sixth floor where lingerie, couture brands and designer sportswear were sold, and where Carroll said Trump raped her in a dressing room while few, if any, people were around. "It wasn't one of our busiest floors," Beal said. Before the jury entered the courtroom, Carroll's attorney read aloud parts of two social media posts by Trump that she said violated the judge's orders. On Truth Social Wednesday morning, Trump posted that Carroll's legal team is being "financed by a big political donor that they said didn't exist, only to get caught lying about that." PHOTO: Joe Tacopina, lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, makes opening statements during a civil trial in New York, April 25, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) He also posted regarding Carroll, "She said there was a dress, using the ol' Monica Lewinsky 'stuff,' then she didn't want to produce it." Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the posts violated the court's orders against "comments about lawyers and one about DNA." "These are out-of-court comments obviously," said defense attorney Joe Tacopina, but Judge Lewis Kaplan cut him off, saying, "...where for two years he refused to give a DNA sample, and now wants it in the case." "What you're trying to do is to get away from a statement by your client, a public statement, that on the face of it seems entirely inappropriate," Kaplan told Tacopina. Tacopina said he would address the posts with Trump. "I will speak to my client and ask him to refrain from any posts about this case," Tacopina said. MORE: E. Jean Carroll requests Trump's DNA related to sexual assault allegation Kaplan said he hoped the lawyer was successful. "We're getting into an area in which your client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability, and I think you know what I mean," Kaplan said. It remains unclear if Trump will testify himself at any point. The judge demanded to know this week whether Trump will appear, telling the defense that it was time to "fish or cut bait." The trial is expected to last about five days. The nine-member jury of six men and three women is weighing Carroll's defamation and battery claims and deciding potential monetary damages. MORE: In deposition, Trump mistook rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for his 2nd wife This week's trial is taking place as Trump seeks the White House for a third time, while facing numerous legal challenges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, his handling of classified material after leaving the White House, and possible attempts to interfere in the Georgia's 2020 vote. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Monday she would decide whether to file criminal charges against Trump or his allies this summer. Carroll's lawsuit is her second against Trump related to her rape allegation. Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019 after the then-president denied her rape claim by telling The Hill that Carroll was "totally lying," saying, "I'll say it with great respect: No. 1, she's not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, OK?" That defamation suit has been caught in a procedural back-and-forth over the question of whether Trump, as president, was acting in his official capacity as an employee of the federal government when he made those remarks. If Trump is determined to have been acting as a government employee, the U.S. government would substitute as the defendant in that suit -- which means that case would go away, since the government cannot be sued for defamation. 'Trump raped me,' E. Jean Carroll testifies in battery, defamation case originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

trump emboldened racism for a vote i am not surprised some repubs do not run on a "send em back to africa" slogan.

the thing about all this is if it was a biden the right would be raising immortal hell about it. they will denie it but it is true. this is when loyalty to party ok's abuse to slide by.

so you want me to go back and try and interview folks from thirty years ago? you clearly have learning difficulties. have you worked on your urges to lie out your behind when you get busted mikey? you can denie it but several people have caught you in lies and called it out beside me. some are even on the right.

i looked up the definition for woke. Alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination. why people think this is a bad thing i will never understand. and no one will ever convince me woke is not a good thing. hjomer would i be wrong in saying this is racist since it involves all people? it is a sh*tty look and i just do not understand.

he will wash up somewhere. probably some kind of podcast. i am disappointed when he misstates stuff that can get people hurt and the gov did not one damn thing.i do not think freedom of speech should ever cover hate speech.

many on the right have no honor.

if you are driving past toomers corner and driving past the university a few blocks down on the left is an old concrete building that was painted white. my mother and father met there in the very early fifties. and it was a club with a band. i often wonder if it was still there. my grandfather would take me to the park on eat glenn acoss from the fire station and let me play. they had an old log bridge that was not very big but he would tell me to run as fast as i could because a troll lived under that bridge and if he caught me he would eat me. i was also told my grandfather james V clayton taught horseback riding for aubufn rotc but have never found anything. he was in the cavalry in world war 1.

folks say there is only room for one star on the team so who is the other star we let go?

can i ask why this cat is being an ass and telling lies you aske me to quit being mean instead of him? just curious.