𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕣 𝔼 𝕁𝕖𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕
𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕣 𝔼 𝕁𝕖𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕
𝔸 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕦𝕞𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕕 𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝟛𝟘 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕘𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕒𝕦𝕟𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕖 "𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕞𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜".
E Jean Carroll told the New York civil rape and defamation trial she had been unable to have a romantic life since the alleged assault.Ms Carroll claims Mr Trump accosted her in a Manhattan department store in 1996.
He has consistently denied her accusations as "fiction".
"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," Ms Carroll told a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. "He lied and shattered my reputation, and I'm here to try and get my life back."
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Ms Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, testified that the encounter with Mr Trump initially began with flirtatious banter after he approached her at the Bergdorf Goodman store and asked if she would help him buy a gift for a friend.
She said the banter quickly took a turn when Mr Trump asked her to try on a piece of lingerie and followed her into a dressing room.
Once inside, she claimed, he closed the door, held her against the wall and raped her.
"As I'm sitting here today I can still feel it," she told the court.
She tried to push Mr Trump off, saying it was clear she didn't want it to happen, she said. The "extremely painful" encounter was over within minutes, she said, and she quickly left the department store and later called a friend.
In the years since, Ms Carroll said she has felt guilty about her decision to enter the dressing room.
Trump, who is running in the 2024 presidential election, has repeatedly denied her allegations.
On Wednesday, on a series of posts on his social media website, he called the account a "fraudulent and false story" and called it into question.
"She didn't scream? There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this?" he wrote.
Mr Trump's post was brought to the attention of US District Judge Lewis Kaplan before witnesses took the stand.
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The judge admonished Mr Trump's legal team for their client's behaviour and said the post was "a public statement that, on the face of it, seems entirely inappropriate".
Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told the judge he would ask his client to "refrain from any further posts on this case".
As of Wednesday it was not immediately clear if the former president planned to appear in court in the case, which is expected to last two weeks.
Ms Carroll, 79, is seeking unspecified damages from Mr Trump, 76.
In 2022, New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations.
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