Donald Trump is facing a lawsuit.
I'm not even talking about the Leticia James thing.
This is a separate lawsuit.
Do you remember E Jean Carroll, that's the author who has previously alleged
that former president Trump raped her in the mid 1990s,
has announced plans to sue him for battery under a new state law.
According to court filings that were just made public yesterday.
Carroll a columnist for El alleged that Trump pinned her against a wall
in the dressing room in either 1995 or 1996, pulled down her tights,
unzipped his pants and sexually assaulted her.
She claims that she fought back against Donald Trump and
escaped relatively quickly.
Now the reason this lawsuit is being launched now is that she had previously
been unable to pursue legal action for
the alleged assault due to the state's statute of limitations.
Now you have the adult survivors act which gives adult survivors of sexual misconduct
a one year window to sue their abusers regardless of when the actual incident
happened.
That is allowing her to do this,
she has requested a deposition to question Trump under oath.
Bear in mind there had already been a legal proceeding around,
I believe defamation when she had made these claims,
he, in her words defamed her in public about it, claiming that she was a liar.
So that has been proceeding.
Now you have a legal proceeding being launched about the actual assault.
She is also asking for those two things to be combined.
We'll see if that actually happens and we'll also get to Trump's response.
But Jr this is, is a bit of a throwback E Jean Carroll was,
I'm gonna say if I remember correctly, the 16th woman who
specifically alleged that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her,
putting her in the middle of the pack because at least 16 more came after that.
But what do you think?
>> It's what we, I remember when this happened at first, and
I couldn't figure out at the time why there was, it was like a 50 50 split.
It seemed at least from what I saw of people paying attention to this and
understanding the severity of it versus folks who were like another one.
And as you mentioned, 16 out of countless other
accusations would make people think that way.
But there's details here and there's things that she was pointing out and
says that she has this proof of that was just being ignored.
And I was like, this is really, really weird and
I'm glad there's at least some opportunity for her to get some kind of results and
accountability for this, because again, this is something you don't forget about.
This is not something you just move on and yeah, that was so many years ago.
But there's one thing about the adult survivors thing as well
as you have a one year window from when that doesn't it
sound a lot like the statute of limitations.
One year window from the point you decide to talk about it.
That should just mean you get a chance to bring this stuff back up and
have an opportunity to have your day to get to your attackers in this particular
situation.
So hope again and now we're in the middle of 14 of the lawsuits against Donald Trump
and all of his associates.
So I hope this doesn't get buried as well.
>> I hope not as well.
I want to of course give a chance for the response from the Trump team.
Alina Haba Trump lawyer who just recently settled her own lawsuit where
an employee of hers alleged that she had frequently used the N
word as a way to pump herself up before court.
Isn't that fun?
Alina Haber responded by asking the judge to reject the request,
which she said would be extraordinarily prejudicial to Trump.
Trump, has not specifically put out a statement although when the initial
allegations were made back in 2019, he responded and
this is not a joke, this is serious.
His defense was she's not my type.
He said it's insane to think that he would have raped her because she's not his type.
Leaving open of course the possibility that had she been his type,
then maybe he would have raped her, but he doesn't find her attractive.
So he didn't rape her.
That's what the former president had to say about an allegation,
a specific detailed allegation of sexual assault.
So, we'll see what happens.
>> Everyone who supports this guy.
Just imagine, any woman that you love, any family member of your life,
says this happened to them, and then you say.
But it can't be.
He's totally not your type, but you're totally not his type.
Is that something you'd say?
>> [LAUGH] I can't, [INAUDIBLE] Like, I don't understand people who find any of
this acceptable, but we're we're filled, we live in a land of madness.
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