{"id":31538,"date":"2023-04-25T04:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31538"},"modified":"2023-04-25T04:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:05:14","slug":"trump-faces-civil-trial-for-e-jean-carroll-rape-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31538","title":{"rendered":"Trump faces civil trial for E Jean Carroll rape allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BBC News: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former President Donald Trump is facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist nearly three decades ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jury selection is due to begin on Tuesday in a New York federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Trump has denied E Jean Carroll’s accusation that he attacked her in a Manhattan department store. He has said she made up the claim for publicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though this is not a criminal case, the consequences for Mr Trump could nevertheless be serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Ms Carroll wins the lawsuit, it would be the first time the former president – who has been the subject of more than two dozen such allegations – would be found legally responsible for a sexual assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Trump is facing a wave of other legal troubles<\/a>, including more than two dozen felony counts over payment of hush money to an adult film actress and an investigation into his alleged role in the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Trump is also juggling his ongoing bid for the White House next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what to expect at the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC News: Former President Donald Trump is facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist nearly three decades ago. Jury selection is due to begin on Tuesday in a New York federal court. Mr Trump has denied E Jean Carroll’s accusation that he attacked her in a Manhattan department store. He has said she made up the claim for publicity. Though this is not a criminal case, the consequences for Mr Trump could nevertheless be serious. If Ms Carroll wins the lawsuit, it would be the first time the former president – who has been… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31540,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538\/revisions\/31540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}