2024-01-16 20:23:00
One day after his victory in the Republican primary in the US state of Iowa, former US President Donald Trump appeared at the start of a defamation trial in New York. In a second trial, columnist and author E. Jean Carroll is demanding ten million dollars (9.1 million euros) in damages from him for statements made in 2019. A judge previously rejected a request from Trump’s lawyers to stay the trial.
This is Carroll’s second lawsuit against Trump: In May, the former US president was convicted of sexual abuse and defamation in a first trial. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Two weeks after Trump’s conviction, Carroll called for even harsher punishment for the former president in an updated lawsuit after he again denied Carroll’s rape allegations and insulted her during a live CNN town hall.
The author accused him of raping her in a dressing room at a New York luxury department store in late 1995 or early 1996. In 2019 she went public with the allegations.
The jury found that he sexually abused Carroll but that she did not prove that she was raped by Trump. Given that verdict, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told prospective jurors that the new trial will only be about whether and how much money Trump must pay Carroll for his comments about her while he was president in 2019.
Trump wants to testify
Trump appealed the jury’s verdict in May. On social media platforms, he denied the allegations of rape and spoke of the judge’s “absolute hatred” for him. Trump’s defense demanded that the trial not be continued and further announced that Trump wanted to testify. In this case there would be strict limits. Because of the previous verdict, he could not take the stand and claim that he did not sexually abuse or defame Carroll, the judge in charge said.
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Carroll also wants to testify. The 80-year-old wants to take the witness stand to report what damage Trump’s public statements have done to her career and reputation.
The cases against Trump
Criminal proceedings
Constitutional procedures
The hush money payments
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
New York State
for business fraud
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The author
E. Jean Carroll because of
Defamation
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
The cases against Trump
Criminal law
Proceedings
Constitutional law
Proceedings
The hush money payments
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
New York State
for business fraud
Trump’s scooter all around
on 6 January 2021
The author
E. Jean Carroll because of
Defamation
The attempt to
to manipulate the 2020 results
The cases against Trump
Criminal proceedings
Constitutional procedures
The hush money payments
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
New York State
for business fraud
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The author
E. Jean Carroll because of
Defamation
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
The cases against Trump
Criminal law
Proceedings
Constitutional law
Proceedings
The hush money payments
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
New York State
for business fraud
Trump’s scooter all around
on 6 January 2021
The author
E. Jean Carroll because of
Defamation
The attempt to
to manipulate the 2020 results
The cases against Trump
Criminal proceedings
The hush money payments
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
Constitutional law
Proceedings
Possible exclusion from the
Presidential election
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Because of the state of New York
Business fraud
The writer E. Jean Carroll
for defamation
The cases against Trump
Criminal law
Proceedings
The hush money payments
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
Constitutional law
Proceedings
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
New York State
for business fraud
The writer E. Jean
Carroll for defamation
The cases against Trump
Criminal law
Proceedings
The hush money payments
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
Constitutional law
Proceedings
Possible exclusion of
the presidential election
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
New York State
for business fraud
The writer E. Jean
Carroll for defamation
The cases against Trump
Criminal proceedings
The hush money payments
Trump’s role around the
6 January 2021
The attempt, the election result
To manipulate 2020
Constitutional law
Proceedings
Possible exclusion from the
Presidential election
The victims of the storm
on the Capitol
Because of the state of New York
Business fraud
The writer E. Jean Carroll
for defamation
One day after his victory in the Republican primary in the US state of Iowa, former US President Donald Trump appeared at the start of a defamation trial in New York. In a second trial, columnist and author E. Jean Carroll is demanding ten million dollars (9.1 million euros) in damages from him for statements made in 2019. A judge previously rejected a request from Trump’s lawyers to stay the trial.
This is Carroll’s second lawsuit against Trump: In May, the former US president was convicted of sexual abuse and defamation in a first trial. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Two weeks after Trump’s conviction, Carroll called for even harsher punishment for the former president in an updated lawsuit after he again denied Carroll’s rape allegations and insulted her during a live CNN town hall.
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