E Jean Carroll says she sued for rape on advice of Trump adviser’s husband
by Chris McGreal in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6BBA8)
Writer tells New York jury George Conway, the husband of top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, encouraged her to take legal action
The advice columnist E Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump for rape after she was encouraged to take legal action by George Conway, the husband of a top aide to the then president.
On her third day on the witness stand, Carroll told the jury hearing her lawsuit for battery and defamation over the alleged sexual assault in a New York department store changing room in 1996 that she did not intend to sue Trump until he called her a liar when she went public with her accusations more than two decades later.
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