During closing arguments in a civil trial in Manhattan federal court, the lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, reminded jurors of a 2005"Access Hollywood" tape they saw during the trial in which Trump bragged on a hot microphone about grabbing women"by the pussy" and that"when you're a star, they let you do it."
Trump has yet to attend the trial, which began on 25 April but told reporters in Ireland last Thursday that he"probably" would attend. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's lawyer, said he expected jurors to begin deliberating on Tuesday. Her defamation claim concerns an October 2022 post on Trump's Truth Social platform in which he called her allegations a"complete con job" and"a Hoax and a lie." He has also said Carroll was"not my type."