Washington Correspondent
The trials against Donald Trump are now following one another at an accelerated pace.
For the third time in less than a month, the former president is being prosecuted in a New York court, this time for a rape case.
After being charged with disguising the money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels as campaign expenses, then being questioned by a Manhattan judge in a financial fraud case, Donald Trump must this time answer a charge concerning a sexual assault dating back to the 1990s, long before the start of his political career.
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The facts only became public in 2019, when a former columnist for US
Elle
magazine , Jean Carroll, accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her 25 years earlier in a dressing room at the department store. luxury Bergdorf Goodman in New York.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, the journalist had told in a feminist memoir book…
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