Former President Donald Trump‘s legal professionals requested a decide to bar jurors at his upcoming civil trial from listening to testimony that he sexually assaulted two different ladies moreover E. Jean Carroll, the author suing him for defaming her after she alleged in 2019 that he raped her within the Nineteen Nineties.

His legal professionals additionally need Manhattan federal courtroom Decide Lewis Kaplan to ban proof of Trump’s notorious “Entry Hollywood” tape, the place he boasted about kissing and groping ladies with out their consent, new authorized filings reveal.

That tape, recorded in 2005, was made public shortly earlier than the 2016 election. On the time, it was seen as probably deadly to Trump’s first White Home bid.

“I am routinely interested in stunning ladies — I simply begin kissing them, it is like a magnet. Simply kiss. I do not even wait,” Trump mentioned on that tape. “And if you’re a star, they allow you to do it. You are able to do something. “Seize ’em by the p—-.”

Trump’s legal professionals additionally requested Kaplan to stop attorneys for Carroll, 79, from displaying jurors proof of Trump’s speeches and statements when he campaigned for president.

Carroll’s legal professionals, then again, are asking Kaplan in their very own filings to confess the testimony by the 2 different ladies, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff. They are saying Trump started groping them with out permission in separate incidents.

Trump, who’s searching for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has denied raping Carroll or sexually assaulting anybody else.

Leeds has mentioned the now-76-year-old Trump sexually assaulted her on an airplane round 1979 after a stewardess invited her to take a seat subsequent to him in first-class.

Stoynoff has mentioned that Trump sexually assaulted her at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida, in 2005 “when she was writing a narrative for Folks Journal about Trump’s upcoming one-year marriage ceremony anniversary” to Melania Trump, Carroll’s courtroom submitting famous.

“Their testimony is admissible as a result of a sexual assault is a ‘factual premise’ of Carroll’s declare, and since their testimony evidences Trump’s modus operandi of forcing himself on nonconsenting ladies,” Carroll’s legal professionals wrote.

“Stoynoff’s and Leeds’ accusations in opposition to Trump, and his responses denying these accusations, are related proof that he dedicated extra sexual assaults,” the submitting says.

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba, in flip, mentioned that testimony ought to be barred underneath the Federal Guidelines of Proof.

Habba wrote that even when it had been in any other case allowed underneath an exception to these guidelines, it nonetheless shouldn’t be given to jurors as a result of “the probative worth of the testimony … doesn’t outweigh the numerous prejudice that may consequence to [Trump] by permitting their inclusion.”

Kaplan has but to rule on the dueling requests, which might have an effect on the result of the trial on account of start in April.

Carroll is suing Trump for allegedly defaming her. He claimed she lied, and was motivated by cash, when she wrote in a 2019 New York journal article and a e book that Trump raped her in a dressing room on the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996 after an opportunity encounter.

On the time of the alleged incident, Trump was married to his second spouse, Marla Maples.

Carroll, in making her claims, joined a minimum of two dozen or so ladies who’ve alleged sexual misconduct by Trump over 5 many years. Amongst them was his first spouse Ivana Trump, who throughout their divorce within the late Nineteen Eighties mentioned he had raped her. Ivana later retracted that allegation.

In her deposition for the case in October, Leeds testified about Trump’s actions on an airplane.

“He was together with his palms grabbing me, attempting to kiss me, grabbing my breasts, pulling me in the direction of him, pulling himself on to me,” Leeds testified.

“A part of my mind was questioning why the individuals … within the seat behind me weren’t noticing that the seat was jiggling round and why wasn’t the man that was sitting throughout the aisle saying one thing or the place the hell was the stewardess,” she mentioned.

“It was when he began placing his hand up my skirt that I noticed that no one was going to save lots of me however me, and I used to be on the aisle, I managed to wheel my approach out of the chair, and grabbed my purse and I went again to my seat within the again,” Leeds testified.

A lawyer requested her: “And did Donald Trump say something whereas this was occurring?”

Leeds responded: “Not a phrase.”

“There was by no means any sound that I can recall,” she mentioned.

In keeping with a courtroom submitting by Carroll’s legal professionals, “A couple of years later, when Trump noticed [Leeds] at a charity occasion, he said, ‘you are the c— from the airplane.'”

“And after Leeds got here foward together with her allegations [in public decades later], Trump denied them and implied that she too ‘was not his kind,'” the submitting famous.

Trump likewise has mentioned of Carroll that she was “not my kind.”

Throughout his personal current deposition by Carroll’s legal professionals, Trump repeated his declare that Carroll is just not his kind.

“She is just not a lady I ever can be interested in,” he testified.

However at one other level in his deposition, when proven a photograph from 1987 through which he and his then-wife Ivana Trump are speaking to Carroll and her then-husband, Trump recognized Carroll as Maples, whom he married after divorcing Ivana.

Stoynoff, in her personal deposition in October, recounted her allegations that Trump assaulted her. She testified that when she visited Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump, “I walked into the room first and I am wanting across the room questioning what does he wish to present me. Good room, what does he wish to present me.”

“Then I hear the door shut behind me and I flip round and he is proper right here … and he grabs my shoulders and pushes me in opposition to this wall and begins kissing me,” Stoynoff mentioned.

Requested by a lawyer if Trump had mentioned something when he started kissing her, Stoynoff replied, “No.”

Stoynoff testified that she was “in full shock” from Trump’s advances, “as a result of it was very quick and I used to be taken … without warning.”

The lawyer than requested: “And if you pushed him again the primary time do you recall how Donald Trump reacted?”

Stoynoff mentioned, “Sure. He simply got here towards me once more.”