May 8 (UPI) -- The attorney for E. Jean Carroll gave an impassioned closing argument in her federal lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, saying she gave "courageous" testimony against a powerful businessman who has sexually assaulted other women the same way.
The jury of six men and three women is considering Carroll's defamation and battery claims, along with potential monetary damages.
Attorney Roberta Kaplan said Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine at the time of the encounter in the 1990s, charged that Trump raped her client in the pattern he bragged about in private in the Access Hollywood tapes before his 2016 election. Those tapes were later made public.
Kaplan told the jury this is not a "he said, she said" case of dueling views of the same incident rather it is confirmed by the people Carroll confided in after the incident and other women who said the former president assaulted them in the same way.
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