A woman accusing former President Donald Trump of raping her three decades ago has arrived at courtroom for the first day of the trial.

Columnist E Jean Carroll entered the Federal District Court in Manhattan shortly before 9am on Tuesday. She wore black sunglasses, a dark shirt and a light gray jacket, and appeared to smile slightly.

Jury selection in the civil trial is scheduled to start over Carroll’s claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in a luxury department dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Carroll went through a security line alongside dozens of potential jurors.

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A handful of protesters gathered near news cameras set up on Worth Street.

‘We support E Jean Carroll,’ her backers chanted. One man held a sign that read, ‘Trump is a rapist.’

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