The writer that former President Donald Trump has been found liable of sexually abusing and defaming testified Wednesday that she entered “a new world” after he publicly called her a liar.
"I've paid just about as dearly as is possible to pay,” Carroll said in the New York courtroom, according to ABC News. "He said people like me, who make false accusations, are very dangerous, in very dangerous territory, that I shouldn't have done it for the sake of publicity.
“That is a lie.”
Carroll told the jury in the federal courtroom that Trump’s 2019 denial of her sexual abuse — he claimed on then-Twitter that he’d never met her — has since caused scores of hateful messages to be sent her way every day, Politico’s Erica Orden reports.
“Sometimes hundreds a day,” Carroll reportedly said.
Carroll then accused Trump of lying about her rape in a department store dressing room. She also hit out at his allegation that she was trying to win publicity with her accusations and his contention that her claim hurt other victims of sexual assault.
Trump denies wrongdoing, but Judge Lewis Kaplan has already ruled he is liable in this second defamation case brought by Carroll. The first ended with him being found liable for $5 million in damages last year.
She told the jury Wednesday she was shocked Trump denied even knowing who she was, ABC News reports.
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"I expected him to deny it but to say it was consensual, which it was not,” Carroll testified. “But that's what I expected him to say.”
His denials in 2019, when he was president — Carroll said he called her a liar 26 times in three days — changed her life, she told the jury.
“To have the President of the United States, one of the most powerful persons on earth, calling me a liar,” Carroll reportedly said, “it ended the world that I had been living in.”
