Jury selection to begin in Donald Trump’s civil rape trial

Columnist E Jean Carroll alleges that the real estate mogul sexually assaulted her in a New York department store nearly 30 years ago

A federal court in New York will begin selecting a jury on Tuesday to hear evidence that Donald Trump raped the famed advice columnist E Jean Carroll nearly three decades ago.

Carroll alleges that Trump pinned her against the wall of a New York department store and sexually assaulted her in late 1995 or early the following year as they shopped together. She brought the case last year under a New York state law opening a one-year window for adult victims of sexual assault to file civil cases after the statute of limitations has expired.