A former advice columnist's nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump has gone to trial.
that rocked his 2016 presidential campaign as he seeks office again. He denies Carroll's claim and all the others, saying they were falsehoods spun up to damage him.
Jurors — whose names are being kept secret to prevent potential harassment — range in age from 26 to 66 and include a janitor, a physical therapist and people who work in security, health care collections, a library, a high school and other settings. One said she follows news by watching "everything"; another said he didn't follow it at all.
She says that after she ran into the future president at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman on a spring evening in 1996, he invited her to shop with him for a woman's lingerie gift before they teased one another to try on a garment. Carroll says they ended up alone together in a store dressing room, where Trump pushed her against a wall and raped her before she fought him off and fled.
Trump has labeled Carroll a "nut job" and "mentally sick." He claimed she fabricated the rape claim to boost sales of her book. Jurors will also see the infamous 2005 "Access Hollywood" video in which Trump is heard making misogynistic remarks about women, including an assertion that celebrities can grab, even sexually, women without asking.
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