Former Elle magazine writer E. Jean Carroll said Wednesday she believes President Donald Trump might have influenced at least one juror not to find him liable for battery and defamation if he had testified in the first civil trial she filed against him.
Carroll sued Trump, accusing him of raping her in a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and later defaming her. In May 2023, a jury found Trump liable for battery and defamation, but not rape.
During a joint Substack livestream with former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, Carroll shared her view that the jury’s makeup could have favored Trump if he had taken the witness stand, according to the Daily Caller on Friday.
Carroll said Trump was golfing in Doonbeg, Ireland during the trial and was persuaded by his attorney Joe Tacopina not to testify. She added that had Trump testified, lawyer Robbie Kaplan would have cross-examined him for about seven hours, which Carroll believed would have been very damaging.
Despite this, Carroll suggested Trump’s strong base of supporters could have helped him convince at least one juror. She pointed out that Trump had twice survived impeachment and was running first in the presidential race when he was talked out of testifying.
Carroll noted the jury was not from Manhattan but from upstate New York, which she described as Trump country, the Conservative Brief reported.
She mentioned Orange County specifically, which Trump won by over 8% in the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, citing Spectrum News 1.
She described the jury as “Trump-favoring,” not a “liberal, avocado-toast-eatin’ jury.” Carroll believed Trump might have convinced one juror and caused a hung jury if he had endured the cross-examination.
Carroll filed the lawsuit after Trump denied knowing her and dismissed her allegations as a “hoax and a lie.” The jury awarded her $5 million in damages in that case.
In a separate defamation trial, a second jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in January 2024.
Carroll recently expressed plans to use the awarded funds—though not yet received—to support causes she believes would upset Trump.
Trump has criticized both verdicts, calling them “absolutely ridiculous” in a January 2024 post on Truth Social.
Last week, a federal appeals court rejected Trump’s effort to overturn the $5 million judgment against him.
The decision came from a divided en banc panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals involving all 11 judges. It upheld a December 30 ruling enforcing the jury award.
Trump argued that the trial judge erred by allowing jurors to see the 2005 Access Hollywood video, where he bragged about his sexual behavior, and what he described as prejudicial evidence involving allegations from two other women.
Two Trump appointees on the bench, Judges Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissented from the en banc decision, arguing the judge should not have admitted “propensity” evidence like the Access Hollywood tape.
The court’s ruling left the jury award intact, maintaining Carroll’s $5 million win.
Carroll’s statement about Trump possibly swaying a juror if he testified marks a new angle in the ongoing legal and public battle between them.
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