The judge who gives the instruction Defamation Trial Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to bar the former president from entering the room where journalist and plaintiff E. Gene Carroll testified this Wednesday after winning another sexual assault and defamation case against him last May.
The warning comes after the former White House chief of staff repeatedly Ignored orders to remain silent When Carroll testified that Trump tarnished her reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her.
“Mr. Trump has a right to be here,” Judge Louis A. said Kaplan, who is running the proceedings. But he warned him: “You can lose this right if you interrupt, which I have been informed, and if you ignore the orders of the court,” according to the judicial press that attended the trial.
After the initial warning, one of the columnist’s lawyers said the dignitary continued to make comments to his lawyers such as “This is a witch hunt.” and “This is really a scam.”
“Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to exclude you from the trial,” the judge declared as the jury was allowed to go to lunch, adding: “I understand you might want me to do that.”
“I’d love to,” Trump gushed.
Donald Trump arrives in New York this Wednesday for another hearing in the defamation case. Photo: AFP “I know you’d love it. You just can’t control yourself under these circumstances, obviously,” Kaplan replied.
“Neither are you,” Trump muttered.
In the midst of his campaign for the Republican Party primary, Magnate appeared the next day in a libel trial brought by a former columnist for the magazine. Ale K Demands $10 million To the detriment of his reputation and career.
Accusation
At the height of the #Metoo movement, the journalist denounced in a book and an article that the then-President had sexually assaulted her in 1996, to which Trump responded that the story of the assault was “totally false” and that Carroll was a “story”. Not his type.”
“I’m here because Donald Trump attacked me and lied and tarnished my reputation when I wrote about him,” the 80-year-old author and former journalist told the jury, according to CBS television.
“I want to recover my dignity,” he added through his lawyers before the 77-year-old former president, who won a recall race in the first date of the Republican Party primaries in the state of Iowa on Monday. to the White House in the November election.
Writer and Journalist E. Jean Carroll arrives at the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial. Photo: REUTERSCampaign in the courts
This is the second trial in eight months in which Carroll has faced Trump. Last May, a jury agreed with the columnist and ordered Magnet to pay her $5 million in damages: two for sexual assault and three for defamation for other statements made in 2022. Trump has appealed the ruling.
In contrast, Judge Louis Kaplan has since ruled that Carroll does not have to prove sexual assault again, given the jury’s decision in May.
“I’ve never seen that woman in my life. I don’t know who she is,” Trump repeated last week, who He has called her a “liar” and a “fool”.“
Trump’s defense team, led by Alina Habba, confirms what the former magazine columnist was looking for. Ale Selling your book is “fame and notoriety”.
Although he was not required to attend the civil trial, Trump decided to do so. On Tuesday night, after attending an event in the state of New Hampshire, the second round of primaries on January 23, and amid snow and freezing temperatures, the Republican dignitary returned to New York to attend the inquiry. On the second day of the trial.
On Tuesday, after his landslide victory in Iowa, Republicans also attended jury selection during the morning.
“I want to attend all my trials,” Trump said last week when he attended the end of another tax evasion trial in Manhattan court, in which his two sons and the family business are also accused.
With several legal fronts open, Trump finds himself the victim of a “witch hunt” orchestrated from the White House to block his return to the presidency.
