WARNING: This article contains details and allegations of sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.
Closing arguments began Monday after former U.S. president Donald Trump rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial in which a longtime advice columnist accuses him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Trump, a Republican candidate for president in 2024, was given until 5 p.m. ET Sunday by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to file a request to testify. No such filing occurred.
Attorney Roberta Kaplan delivered the
