US authoress Jean E. Jean Carroll says Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room in the mid-1990s. Because the US president, who repeatedly rejected the allegation of sexual abuse, she then accused the lie, Carroll is now legally against Trump.
According to the Washington Post, the White House responded to the lawsuit with a renewed counterattack: spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said the accusation was "silly and the story a hoax - just like the author."
Shortly after the allegations hit him in June, Trump told The Hill Political website, "I'll say it with great respect. First, she's not my type." And: "Second, it never happened, it never happened, okay?" Carroll would "totally lie".
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In the lawsuit, Carroll accuses the US president of damaging her reputation and career by stating she lied and never met her.
Even on Trump's denial Carroll had reacted immediately on CNN. She told the broadcaster that Trump was responding to her accusation just as he had responded to earlier allegations by other women: "He denies it, he turns it around, he attacks, and he threatens."
The 75-year-old accuses Trump of having raped her in the locker room of a New York department store more than two decades ago. The sexual assault occurred in 1995 or 1996, Carroll wrote in a book from which the magazine "New York" published extracts in June.
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