Trump rape and defamation case goes to jury

Lawyers made their closing arguments Monday in writer E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. The case goes to the jury on Tuesday following a two-week trial in which Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her in a dressing room at the upscale Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s, then defamed her in recent years by calling her a liar when she told the story in a book. Trump wants people to ignore the evidence and believe "there is a vast conspiracy against him," Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said.  Trump's lawyers called no witnesses. Joseph Tacopina, attorney for Trump, said Carroll's claims were "odd, inconceivable, unbelievable."