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Jodie Comer on Broadway echoes the pain and fury of the Trump rape trial

E. Jean Carroll is seen outside State Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, in New York.

NEW YORK — "Prima Facie," the one-woman play starring Jodie Comer now on Broadway, forensically examines the way rape survivors are put through the wringer by the judicial system. It's an ideal guide for understanding what E. Jean Carroll is up against in the civil trial against Donald Trump, whom she has accused of raping her in the mid-1990s in a New York department store.

On Wednesday, Carroll took the stand and recalled in harrowing detail what occurred to her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room on the afternoon she bumped into Trump at the store and agreed to help him pick out a gift for another woman. The two weren't friends but

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