Key moments from E Jean Carroll's civil rape trial against Donald Trump

A assemblage has begun deliberating successful a erstwhile columnist's civilian rape proceedings against Donald Trump.

E Jean Carroll is suing the ex-US president, alleging helium raped her successful a Manhattan section store astir 30 years ago. She is seeking millions of dollars successful damages.

The two-week proceedings successful New York national tribunal has featured tense exchanges with lawyers and arguable remarks astir women's bodies.

Mr Trump did not springiness evidence, but consistently denied the accusation.

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered instructions to the 9 jurors connected Tuesday greeting earlier they retired to see their verdict.

While the statute of limitations has agelong since passed successful the case, New York precocious enacted a instrumentality which allowed decades-old intersexual battle claims to beryllium filed arsenic civilian lawsuits.

One of the astir pivotal moments of the proceedings came during Ms Carroll's opening testimony, erstwhile she described successful graphic item what she alleges happened successful the Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store successful 1996 and the trauma she says she has endured arsenic a result.

"I'm present due to the fact that Donald Trump raped maine and erstwhile I wrote astir it, helium lied and said it didn't happen," she said.

She past proceeded to locomotion the tribunal done the time of the alleged assault, explaining however she bumped into Mr Trump and exchanged flirtatious banter with him earlier things rapidly turned violent. She said Mr Trump asked her to travel with him into a dressing room, wherever helium closed the door, held her against the partition and raped her.

"As I'm sitting present contiguous I tin inactive consciousness it," she told the court.

She added that Mr Trump's denial of the battle had shattered her reputation, costing her her occupation and romanticist relationships. "I'm present to effort to get my beingness back," she said.

During respective hours of cross-examination implicit 2 days, Ms Carroll faced challenging questions astir the battle from Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who attempted to formed uncertainty connected her details of the alleged rape.

During a peculiarly tense exchange, Mr Tacopina repeatedly asked Ms Carroll wherefore she did not outcry erstwhile the alleged battle occurred.

"I'm not a screamer," she told Mr Tacopina, adding that immoderate women bash not travel guardant astir intersexual assaults due to the fact that they are asked wherefore they did not scream.

"I'm telling you helium raped maine whether I screamed oregon not," she told Mr Tacopina astatine 1 point.

The Trump lawyer besides pressed Ms Carroll connected wherefore she did not study the battle astatine archetypal to the police.

The erstwhile Elle mag columnist replied that she was a subordinate of the "silent generation", saying women her property were taught to support quiet.

Mr Tacopina besides questioned Ms Carroll connected wherefore she could not callback the circumstantial day of the assault. The writer aboriginal conceded that definite parts of her communicative were "difficult to conceive of".

During the trial, Mr Trump did not equine his ain defence, calling nary witnesses and appearing to support himself lone successful a video of his deposition, excerpts of which Ms Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, played for the court. Ms Kaplan is not related to the justice successful this case, Lewis Kaplan.

Facing questions from Ms Kaplan, Mr Trump continued to contradict the allegations helium raped Ms Carroll, calling them a "big abdominous hoax" and repeating erstwhile remarks that Ms Carroll was "not his benignant successful immoderate way".

But astatine 1 point, helium appeared to confuse Ms Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples, a mistake Ms Carroll's lawyers claimed undermined his statement that the writer was not his type.

In the video, Mr Trump is shown an aged black-and-white photograph of him speaking to a antheral and 2 women astatine an event. "It's Marla," helium said, earlier his ain lawyer told him the pistillate helium referred to successful the photograph was so Ms Carroll.

In different excerpt from Mr Trump's video deposition played for the court, Ms Kaplan replayed for Mr Trump a arguable Access Hollywood signaling from 2005 featuring a speech betwixt him and the show's co-host astir women.

"When you're a star, they fto you bash it. You tin bash anything," Mr Trump said successful the recording, which was leaked to the nationalist conscionable 1 period earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election. "Grab them by the [expletive]. You tin bash anything," helium added.

Asked astir the clip by Ms Kaplan, the erstwhile president seemed to treble down connected the remarks, claiming: "Historically, that's existent with stars."

When Ms Kaplan pressed him connected his comments astir grabbing women "by the [expletive]", Mr Trump said: "Well, I conjecture if you look implicit the past cardinal years, that's been mostly existent - not ever true, but mostly true, unluckily oregon fortunately."

In different tense moments during the questioning, Mr Trump appeared to turn agitated with Ms Kaplan, attacking her appearance, claiming that, similar Ms Carroll, "you wouldn't beryllium a prime of excavation either, to beryllium honest".

During her 2nd time connected the basal nether questioning from her ain lawyers, Ms Carroll described the backlash she encountered aft coming guardant with her rape allegation.

After Mr Trump released a connection successful societal media denying the accusation and calling Ms Carroll's archetypal suit against him a "con job", Ms Carroll said she faced a "wave of slime".

She said galore extrapolated connected Mr Trump's remarks that she was "not his type", telling her she was "too disfigured to spell connected living".

Mr Trump's societal media comments besides sparked a rebuke from the justice successful the case, Lewis Kaplan. The erstwhile president has called the suit a "made-up scam" and claimed Ms Carroll's lawyer was a governmental operative, remarks Mr Kaplan called "entirely inappropriate".