Hi, this is Rob calling from Beautiful and currently sunny to Coma Washington.

I'm picking up sandwiches after finishing a planning commission meeting where I serve as a

volunteer planning commissioner. This podcast was recorded at...

It is 2.10 pm on Wednesday, May 10th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we'll still be reviewing minor

code amendments and zoning changes here in the city of destiny. Enjoy the show!

Local government is extremely important and often very very local. Hey there, it's the NPR

Politics podcast. I'm Tamra Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Mara Laiasson, National Political

Correspondent. And NPR's Andrea Bernstein is here with us. Hello there. Hey! And a warning on

today's podcast, we will be talking about sexual violence. Former President Donald Trump is

liable for battery and defamation against the writer E. Jean Carroll. She says Trump raped her in

a Manhattan department store in the mid 1990s and she sued him in civil court. Jurors did not find

that Trump raped Carol, but they agreed that there was a preponderance of evidence that he

sexually abused her and that he defamed her when he denied the allegations claiming she wasn't his

type. Andrea, I don't know that we've actually talked about this case on the pod before, but you've

been following it closely. What did Carol allege that Trump did? So this is E. Jean Carroll who was

in the 1990s a renowned advice columnist. And what she says happened is she was walking out of a

burgdorf Goodman's department store, which is right near Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. And she

runs into Donald Trump walking in and they have some lighthearted banter and he asked her for help

on a shopping errand for a woman friend of his and they end up in the lingerie department.

And she says they're joking about a piece of lingerie that he's picked up and then he steers her into

the dressing room and then all of a sudden everything turns tragic, she says. And he slams her against

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