Trump’s team asked the jury to accept an outdated, out-of-touch, “perfect” rape victim archetype. Stories from the MeToo movement exposed America to a more nuanced understanding of survival. (via MaddowBlog)
, that promised showdown never happened. And as is their right in a civil case, Carroll’s team made much of the elephant who ghosted the room.
So in the absence of any live Trump testimony, much less any witnesses of their own, how did Team Trump attempt to win over the jury? By collecting up and dishing out a litany of reasons to disbelieve Carroll’s narrative that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s.Trump’s lawyers noted the fact that no one else was on the sixth floor of Bergdorf Goodman, New York’s premiere luxury department store, when Trump allegedly raped Carroll.
But on rebuttal, Ferrara countered these supposed reasons to dismiss Carroll’s story: Trump not only lacked the respect for our justice system to show up in person, look the jury in the eye, and deny the alleged assault, but more fundamentally, Ferrara said, Trump’s team is asking the jury to accept the outdated, out-of-touch archetype of a “perfect” rape victim.
The truth, Ferrara maintained, is weird; only fiction, he implied, is as tidy as Tacopina’s trope about victims.
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