E Jean Carroll expected to testify in Trump rape-defamation civil trial

Writer is suing former president over alleged assault in New York department store in 1990s

E Jean Carroll, the advice columnist suing Donald Trump for rape, is expected to testify on Wednesday in the civil trial of the former president for alleged battery and defamation.

The trial opened on Tuesday with Carroll’s lawyer, Shawn Crowley, telling the jury of three women and six men she was seeking “to clear her name, to pursue justice and to get her life back”.