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While Washington digests the official start of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, Donald Trump is probably keeping an eye on a New York courthouse, where a civil case alleging he committed rape is going to trial today. Here’s the latest on that, from the Guardian’s Chris McGreal.
A federal court in New York will begin selecting a jury on Tuesday to hear evidence that Donald Trump raped the famed advice columnist E Jean Carroll nearly three decades ago.