A lawyer for author E. Jean Carroll informed jurors on Monday that Donald Trump adopted a “playbook” he had for kissing and groping girls with out their consent earlier than he raped Carroll in a New York division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

“You could maintain him to account for what he is accomplished,” Carroll’s lawyer Robert Kaplan stated. She delivered closing argument to jurors in U.S. District Court in Manhattan for a civil trial through which Trump, the main 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is accused of battery and defaming the writer.

Kaplan confirmed jurors a snippet of the “Access Hollywood” tape, when Trump boasted in 2005 about touching girls with out their consent.

“I simply begin kissing them. It is like a magnet. Simply kiss. I do not even wait. And while you’re a star, they allow you to do it. You are able to do something. Seize ’em by the p—y. You are able to do something,” Trump stated on the tape, recorded for an look on that leisure present.

Kaplan informed jurors: “What’s he doing right here he’s telling you in his personal phrases his modus operandi, his MO…he kissed them with out their consent.”

“The proof reveals overwhelmingly he adopted this playbook and within the dressing room there grabbed [Carroll] by the p—y,” she stated.

In his deposition within the case, Trump informed Kaplan that “sadly or luckily,” for “thousands and thousands of years,” stars had been in a position to sexually grope girls with out asking permission first.

“He really used the phrase ‘luckily’ describing sexual assault,” Kaplan informed jurors.

“Who would say, ‘luckily?’ Somebody who thinks they’re a star he thinks stars like him can get away with it,” Kaplan stated.

Carroll testified earlier within the trial that the previous president had raped her in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan after that they had an opportunity encounter at that retailer.

Trump, 76, denies raping the now-79-year-old Carroll, and has accused her of creating up the story for political and monetary causes.

He additionally has repeatedly stated Carroll is “not my sort.”

However Kaplan on Monday confirmed jurors a video of Trump’s deposition final fall. He was requested a couple of picture of him, Carroll, her then-husband and Trump’s then-wife Ivana Trump at an occasion from the Nineteen Eighties.

“That is Marla,” Trump says on that tape concerning the picture, figuring out Carroll as his different ex-wife, Marla Maples.

Kaplan informed jurors Monday: “He pointed to Ms. Carroll who he says isn’t his sort and mistook her for Marla Maples.”

Carroll “is strictly his sort and he repeated it twice and solely modified when his lawyer pointed it out,” Kaplan stated. “He made up an excuse for why he made a mistake, saying it was blurry, and you understand it is by no means blurry … E. Jean Carroll is a former cheerleader from Indiana, was precisely his sort.”

Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina is about to present his closing argument later Monday.

Trump, not like Carroll, has not appeared in individual for the trial.

The choose within the case had given Tacopina till Sunday afternoon to alter his determination to not have Trump testify in his personal protection. However that deadline handed with out the lawyer telling the choose that Trump would take the stand Monday.

Trump, who’s the main contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was criminally charged final month by the Manhattan District Lawyer for allegedly falsifying enterprise data associated to a 2016 hush cash cost his then-lawyer made to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, earlier than the election that yr.

He has pleaded not responsible in that case.

Trump additionally faces a number of felony investigations for his efforts to overturn his loss within the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, and in reference to failing to give up authorities data, lots of them labeled, when he left the White Home.