Carroll first accused Trump of rape in 2019, when she published a story about the alleged encounter in New York Magazine. “I’m very interested to see whether, in this case, the jury is able to cut through all of that and judge her story on its face.”ĭuring cross-examination, Carroll and one of Trump’s lawyers, Joe Tacopina, repeatedly circled the issue of why Carroll, who has said she was raped by Trump in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, didn’t come forward sooner. “The cross-examination was designed in such a way that we would expect the jury to need to draw on these rape myths and stock misunderstandings about how rape victims behave in order to find it effective,” said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law professor and author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. These myths may not only discredit sexual assault survivors, but they can also shift the blame onto a victim rather than a perpetrator. Over the last few days, the questioning by Trump’s legal team has evoked what experts often call “rape myths”-that is, false ideas about sexual assault, how it works, and how it impacts people.
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