looks like someone is gonna be pulling out the ck book out........
E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Trump continued Tuesday with jurors hearing from another woman who shared a similar story to Carroll's.
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"I was too busy to trap a woman in a corner."
2nd woman testifies Trump sexually assaulted her
“All of a sudden, Trump decided to kiss me and grope me,” Jessica Leeds testified, adding, “It was out of the blue.”
Leeds, 81, told the jury in the civil trial, being held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan, that she was 37 years old when Trump assaulted her. She recounted boarding the plane and taking her seat at the back of the coach when a flight attendant approached her and asked if she wanted to move up to first class.
“Yes, of course,” she recalled saying, eliciting some laughter from the courtroom.
In response to questions from plaintiff's attorney Michael Ferrara, Leeds described the layout of the first-class cabin, where she said there were two rows of seats, with two seats each on either side of the aisle. She said she was brought to an aisle seat in the first row. When she sat down, the man seated in the window seat introduced himself as Donald Trump.
“We shook hands,” she told the jury, noting that she didn’t see any other women sitting in first class.
Asked whether she knew who Trump was at the time, Leeds said she was living and working in Connecticut and was not aware of the social or real estate scene in New York.
She said she and Trump made light conversation, and that after a meal had been served and cleared away, their encounter took an unwelcome turn.
“All of a sudden, Trump decided to kiss me and grope me,” Leeds testified, adding, “It was out of the blue.”
She described Trump kissing her and grabbing her breasts, “like he had 40 zillion hands,” during what she described as “a tussle between the two of us.”
Leeds said she remembered thinking, “Where is the stewardess?” before realizing, “No one is going to help me.”
Trump continued his assault, Leeds testified, putting his hand up her skirt before she managed to wrestle free and walk back to her original seat in coach.
Asked whether she screamed or called to a flight attendant or anyone else during the encounter, Leeds said, “It never occurred to me to yell out.”
While the encounter “felt like forever,” all told it probably lasted “just a few seconds,” she told the jury.
Leeds testified that she didn’t report the incident to anyone on the plane, nor did she tell anyone about it when she went to work the following day.
“I didn’t tell anybody at work because I didn’t think they’d be interested in my experience,” she said, explaining that during that time, in the workplace “men could get away with a lot.”
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t was only when it became clear that Trump was planning to run for president in 2016 that, Leeds said, she decided to share her story.
“I thought he was not the kind of person we’d want as president,” she said.
Watching a 2016 debate moderated by Anderson Cooper during which Trump denied groping women incensed her, she testified. (Trump had previously, as on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, boasted about groping women.)
“I was furious,” she said, “because I knew he was lying.” Trump has denied her allegations.
After moving to New York City in 1981, Leeds said she had another encounter with Trump at a gala for the Humane Society held at Saks Fifth Avenue department store. Tasked with giving out tickets to patrons, Leeds approached a table occupied by Trump and his then-wife Ivana.
“I remember you,” Leeds testified Trump told her, “You’re that c*nt from the airplane.”
Trump has denied the allegations made by Leeds, who was the second witness called to testify by Carroll’s attorneys on Tuesday. The first was Lisa Birnbach, a writer and friend of Carroll’s who was the first person Carroll says she called following the alleged attack at Bergdorf Goodman department store....
A second woman took the witness stand Tuesday in the civil battery and defamation trial of former President Donald Trump and testified that he sexually assaulted her on a flight in 1979.
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