Tacopina then questioned why Carroll could not pinpoint a date the alleged rape occurred.
“I wish to heaven we could give you a date,” Carroll said.
Tacopina suggested Carroll only told her story about Trump to sell a book.
“You thought including the story about Donald Trump while he was still president would help sell the book?” he asked.
“I thought so but I was wrong,” Carroll said. She had previously testified her book did not sell well.
Tacopina then asked, “In two decades, you don’t call the police, correct?” Carroll replied, “Correct.”
“In two decades you never revealed this story in your hundreds of your advice columns, correct?” Tacopina said.
“Correct,” Carroll said.
“Only when you were trying to get a publisher and sell your book?” Tacopina asked, to which Carroll replied her story came out after The New York Times published its landmark story about Harvey Weinstein.