As Christina Lili previously reported — President Trump appeared in court on Wednesday while E. Jean Carroll testified in a trial where a jury will decide how much Trump must pay for his allegedly “defamatory” statements about her.
Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, previously ruled that Trump was liable for the defamatory statements he made about Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape.
In 2019, E. Jane Carroll alleged that Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s.
Trump denied the allegations and described E. Jean Carroll described it as a “hit job” that was “not my type”.
Under questioning by Trump lawyer Alina Haba, E. Jean Carroll admitted that she deleted the emails under a subpoena.
Judge Kaplan intervened for Carroll.
Heba: You said that you receive death threats daily – but you deleted them until the trial? Explain what you mean.
Judge Kaplan: Explain what you mean by what?
Habba: When did you stop deleting death threats?
Carol: I didn't receive their number.– Inner City Press (innercitypress) January 17, 2024
President Trump's lawyer Alina Haba asked Carroll if she had received a subpoena.
“Yes,” Carol replied before admitting that she had deleted the emails.
Haba: So do you have death threats?
Carol: I deleted them.
Haba: So you-
Carroll's Lawyer: Asked and answered.
Haba: This is a very important question
Carroll's lawyer: I object to the comment as well– Inner City Press (innercitypress) January 17, 2024
Carroll admitted deleting the emails under a subpoena because she did not want to bother her attorney.
How is this not a criminal act? Why wasn't she charged with destroying evidence?
Trump's legal team is now calling for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll's case after she admitted to deleting evidence.
Trump's team argues that evidence Carroll omitted proves she was receiving threats before President Trump commented on her allegations. E. Jean Carroll omitted evidence.
It is absolutely shameful that an issue like this is taken seriously by the fake news media.
CNN reported:
Former President Donald Trump has renewed his request to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll after she admitted to deleting some emails.
Trump attorney Alina Haba requested a mistrial earlier this week during cross-examination when Carroll testified that she deleted some emails containing threats to her safety. The judge rejected it immediately.
In a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Friday, Haba reiterated the request and said that without records there is no way to prove when the threats occurred. Trump argued that Carroll immediately began receiving negative messages after an excerpt from Carroll's book containing the assault allegations was published on New York Magazine's website — hours before Trump issued his first statement. His lawyers said Trump should not be held responsible for what others did.
Haba said that if the judge does not grant her request for a mistrial, he should not allow Carroll to seek damages based on the death threats.
“Plaintiff’s claim for emotional distress is completely undermined because it would show that Plaintiff was receiving death threats before President Trump spoke out about her,” Haba wrote.
Haba also asks the judge to instruct the jury that since Carroll deleted the emails, they must “assume that the emails were unfavorable” and therefore do not support Carroll's claims.
