Former President Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom yesterday to defend himself against a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million for things he said about advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault.
Trump’s first visit to court this week, on Monday, ended abruptly because a juror was ill. The trial was suspended until yesterday, when two jurors were “socially distanced” from the others in the jury box when they returned.
Carroll’s lawyers called a single witness — Roberta Myers — who told jurors that Carroll was a “truthteller” with her popular monthly advice column while Myers was editor-in-chief of Elle magazine from 2000 to 2017.
Carroll’s attorneys followed the testimony by showing jurors clips of Trump on the campaign trail saying Carroll had concocted a “made up fabricated story” about him and portions of his October 2022 deposition when Trump denied knowing who Carroll was.
One snippet shown to jurors was when Trump during his deposition misidentified Carroll as his ex-wife, Marla Maples.
If everything goes as planned, Trump could be on the witness stand today [Macau time].
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