NEW YORK (AP) — A close friend of E. Jean Carroll testified Tuesday that the columnist telephoned her just minutes after she claimed to have had a violent 1990s encounter with Donald Trump in a luxury department store dressing room.
— A close friend of E. Jean Carroll testified Tuesday that the columnist telephoned her just minutes after she claimed to have had a violent 1990s encounter with Donald Trump in a luxury department store dressing room.
After hearing Carroll’s account, Lisa Birnbach concluded that Carroll had been raped and urged her to contact police, according to her testimony in Manhattan federal court.
Birnbach testified at a civil trial a day after Carroll finished three days on the witness stand, where she described being raped by Trump in spring 1996 after a chance encounter at a Bergdorf Goodman store.
“I’m here because I am her friend, and I want the world to know that she is telling the truth,” said Birnbach, who, like Carroll, is a writer.
Birnbach said she was serving dinner to her two small children at home when an emotional and breathless Carroll called her between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. one day in early 1996.
“She said: ‘Lisa, you’re not going to believe what happened to me.
