Attorney Roberta Kaplan said Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine at the time of the encounter in the 1990s, charged that Trump raped her client in the pattern he bragged about in private in the Access Hollywood tapes before his 2016 election. Those tapes were later made public.

Kaplan told the jury this is not a “he said, she said” case of dueling views of the same incident rather it is confirmed by the people Carroll confided in after the incident and other women who said the former president assaulted them in the same way.

“Three different women, decades apart, but one single pattern of behavior,” Kaplan told the jury. “In that respect, what happened to E. Jean Carroll is not unique.”

Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff testified in Carroll’s trial that they were similarly sexually assaulted by Trump.

Kaplan then pointed to the Access Hollywood tape that nearly derailed Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, in which he described a crass treatment of women that the former president and his supporters later described simply as boastful locker-room talk.

“What is Donald Trump doing here?” Kaplan said. “He’s telling you in his own words how he treats women. It’s his modus operandi.”

Trump, who opted not to testify in his own defense, has denied the incident happened and that he does not know Carroll. His attorneys had tried to poke holes in Carroll’s story, pointing to her testimony that she could not recall the date the incident took place and did not pursue legal action at the time.

Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina said the case against Trump is politically motivated and used to sell a book written by Carroll. He told to jury to disregard its notions of the former president and focus on the facts of the case.

“People have very strong feelings about Donald Trump,” he said. “There’s a time and a secret place to do that. It’s called a ballot box during an election.”

Tacopina was warned to stop referencing an episode of Law & Order, which Trump’s team claimed included allegations similar to those made against their client by Carroll. Judge Kaplan also told the jury to ignore Tacopina’s accusation that Carroll was influenced to file the lawsuit by lawyer George Conway, The New York Times reports.

Attorneys for Carroll and Trump rested their cases last Thursday, with U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan giving Trump until Sunday to reconsider his decision not to testify and reopening the case. Trump, while playing golf in Europe last week, suggested he would fly back to face his accusers.

The jury will receive instructions on the law Tuesday before entering deliberations.

Judge Lewis Kaplan is of no relation to attorney Roberta Kaplan.