Trump accuser told friend of dressing room attack moments after it happened
A close friend of E. Jean Carroll claims the former columnist called her minutes after allegedly being raped by Donald Trump.
The witness testified in court on Tuesday about the 1990s encounter in a department store.
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.
Ms Birnbach testified at a civil trial a day after Ms 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 Ms Birnbach, who, like Ms Carroll, is a writer
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E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court in Manhattan following another day of testimony in the ongoing civil rape case against Donald Trump. (Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx)Ms Birnbach said she was serving dinner to her two small children at home when an emotional and breathless Ms Carroll called her between 6 pm and 7 pm one day in early 1996.
"She said: Lisa, you're not going to believe what happened to me", Ms Birnbach explained.
She recalled her friend telling her Trump greeted her in a revolving door as she was leaving the department store.
Ms Brinbach said that Trump asked Ms Carroll to join him in the store to choose a gift for a female friend.
Ms Carroll did, but Trump ignored suggestions like a belt or sunglasses and they went upstairs to the lingerie department, where they spotted a body suit, Birnbach recalled.
Former President Donald Trump has called the case a 'scam' (Charles Krupa/AP/REX/Shutterstock)Ms Birnbach said Trump suggested Ms Carroll try on a bodysuit and recalled: "She, continuing the jokey banter that they had, said: "Why don't YOU try it on."
After they entered the dressing room, Trump slammed her against the wall, pinned her against the wall and pulled down her tights, Ms Birnbach said her friend told her.
She testified that her friend sounded like she was hyperventilating. "Her voice was doing all kinds of things. She may have been a little bit laughing."
She said Ms Carroll repeated "many times" that Trump pulled down her tights, "like she was still processing it."
"And then he penetrated her," Ms Birnbach said her friend told her.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll is seen leaving court (AFP via Getty Images)When she heard the word "penis," Ms Birnbach said, she went out of the kitchen even though she knew her children didn't know what the word meant, and whispered to her friend: "Jean, he raped you. You should go to the police."
But she said Ms Carroll shut down that discussion and rejected Birnbach's offer to go with her to the police.
"We had a fight," Ms Birnbach recalled.
"She said: `Promise me you will never speak of this again. And promise me you will tell no one,'" Ms Birnbach said.
Ms Birnbach said she kept the promise for over two decades until Ms Carroll spoke publicly about the Trump encounter after she wrote about it in a 2019 memoir. Ms Birnbach noted that she was one of the individuals to whom Ms Carroll dedicated the book.
Under questioning by lawyers on both sides, Ms Birnbach admitted that she had written on social media that she believed Trump was a bad president who she suspected had never read a history book or the Constitution.
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