President Trump on Thursday testified within the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial in a Manhattan courtroom.
Trump took the witness stand for about three minutes. The protection rested after Trump’s testimony.
Jurors will return Friday morning to listen to closing arguments.
JUST IN: Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba calls the previous president to the witness stand in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial. pic.twitter.com/5s3RRKD6En
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Choose Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, launched Trump to the witness stand asserting that Trump ‘inserted fingers into E. Jean Carroll’s vagina.’
Choose Kaplan: Ms. Carroll adhered to the Court docket’s rulings. Ms. Kaplan on behalf of Ms. Carroll questioned if Mr. Trump may provide any admissible testimony. Ms. Habba, you mentioned he may testify in regards to the reporters’ questions, and if he was appearing with in poor health will
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Choose Kaplan was referring to the Manhattan jury’s verdict handed down final yr.
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room within the Nineteen Nineties.
Trump has denied the allegations and known as E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” who’s “not my sort.”
The jury final yr awarded E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages.
The jury determined that E. Jean Carroll did not show Trump raped her.
Nonetheless, the jury mentioned E. Jean Carroll proved Trump sexually abused her when he ‘inserted fingers into her vagina.’
Choose Kaplan: Clerk will publish the decision.
Clerk: As to battery, did Ms. Carroll show that Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll? Reply. NO
Clerk: Abused Ms. Carroll? Sure. Greenback quantity: $2 million— Interior Metropolis Press (@innercitypress) May 9, 2023
President Trump appeared in courtroom final Wednesday as E. Jean Carroll testified in a trial the place the jury will determine how a lot Trump has to pay for his so-called ‘defamatory’ statements about her.
Underneath cross-examination by Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba, E. Jean Carroll admitted she deleted emails under subpoena.
Far-left Clinton Choose Kaplan rushed to E. Jean Carroll’s protection after Alina Habba moved for a mistrial following Carroll’s admission to deleting large quantities of proof.
Carroll additionally made a stunning admission under questioning about her Trump media tour. She mentioned she did 4 TV interviews and several other podcasts to advertise her e-book.
This isn’t the primary time Choose Kaplan has proven his contempt for Trump.
Choose Kaplan threatened to kick Trump out of court final Wednesday – and Trump didn’t maintain again.
“I might adore it,” Trump mentioned after Choose Kaplan warned him he can be faraway from the courtroom if he’s ‘disruptive.’