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Speaking under oath on Wednesday, Stoynoff elaborated on her story, saying Trump “came toward me again, and I tried to shove him again. He was kissing me, he was up against me. He was holding my shoulders back.”
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While in the courtroom, Stoynoff detailed how Trump “led the way to show me the room” while the two were waiting for Melania to change mid-photo shoot.
“I followed him and we went through the back door,” she testified. “I hear the door shut. He pushed me against the wall and started kissing me.”
While she said she “tried to shove him” away, Stoynoff added that Trump was “holding my shoulders back.”
Stoynoff said Trump then told her, “You know, we are going to have an affair,” and bragged about being good in bed.
“I was trying to pretend nothing had happened,” she testified, adding that she felt “ashamed and humiliated” at the time.
Stoynoff, who went public with her story ina 2019 op-ed forThe Washington Post, said that she didn’t go public earlier because she feared “Trump would try to destroy me.”
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In her suit — filed on Thanksgiving Day 2022 in the U.S. Southern District of New York — the writer alleges: “Roughly 27 years ago, playful banter at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in New York City took a dark turn when Defendant Donald J. Trump seized Plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, forced her up against a dressing room wall, pinned her in place with his shoulder, and raped her.”
The suit further alleges that Carroll “remained silent for over two decades” for fear of being buried in “threats and lawsuits” and damage to her reputation and livelihood.
The suit claims that the incident “severely injured Carroll, causing significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological harms, loss of dignity, and invasion of her privacy” and seeks “redress for her injuries and to demonstrate that even a man as powerful as Trump can be held accountable under the law.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
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