“I would just ask Mr. Trump to take special care to keep his voice low when conferring with counsel to make sure the jury doesn't hear him,” Kaplan said before jurors returned to the courtroom after the morning break.
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Earlier, without the presence of the jury in the courtroom, Trump was seen slamming his hand on the defense table and uttering the word “man”, when the judge again rejected his lawyer's request to suspend the trial on Thursday so that he could attend his mother. His brother-in-law's funeral in Florida.
Carroll, 80, was the first witness in a federal court trial in Manhattan to determine the damages, if any, that Trump owes her for statements he made while he was president in June 2019 in which he vehemently denied attacking her or knowing her. A jury last year found that Trump sexually assaulted her in 1996 and defamed her when he made a round of denials in October 2022.
Carroll's appearance, which continues Wednesday afternoon (local time), has been a bit of a tightrope walk due to the judge's restrictions on the trial in light of the previous ruling and previous rulings he issued that restrict the injection of political talk into the proceedings.
Haba filed multiple objections seeking to prevent the jury from hearing details of Carroll's sexual assault allegations.
“I paid as high a price as I could get,” Carroll said, referring to the damage she said Trump caused to her reputation.
In this courtroom sketch, Jane Carroll, right, is questioned by her attorney, Roberta Kaplancredit: AP
She said that Trump's harsh criticism towards her did not stop, pointing to his multiple posts on social media that he published about her in recent days, and that his speech continued to incite hatred against her from strangers because she claimed that he had sexually assaulted her decades ago.
“He lied last month. He lied on Sunday. He lied yesterday. I'm here to restore my reputation,” Carroll said.
She said she opened a social media site on Tuesday and saw a post that said: “Lady, you are a scammer.”
Carroll said she was concerned for her personal safety after a series of death threats prompted her to buy bullets for a gun she inherited from her father, install an electronic fence, warn her neighbors of the threats, and unleash her pit bull to roam freely on her property. The small cabin in the mountains of upstate New York where she lives alone.
She also brought security to the trial this week and last May, and said she often thought about hiring more security to accompany her.
“why not?” asked her attorney, Roberta Kaplan — who is no relation to the judge.
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“I can't stand it,” Carroll replied.
She took the stand after a hostile confrontation between Haba and the judge — culminating in criticism of Trump's office — over the judge's refusal to postpone the trial on Thursday so Trump could attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump's mother, Amalia Knavs, who last died. week.
Habba described the judge's ruling as “insanely biased,” and shortly thereafter the judge interrupted her, saying he “will not hear any more argument about this matter.”
“I will not talk that way, Your Honor,” Haba told the judge. When I mentioned the funeral again, the judge replied, “Matter denied. Sit down. Get the jury.”
Carroll's testimony came nine months after she sat in the same chair to persuade a jury in hopes of holding Trump accountable in a way that would spare him from repeated verbal attacks against her during his presidential campaign. He is the front-runner on the GOP ticket and won the Iowa caucuses this week.
“I'm here because Donald Trump assaulted me and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened. He lied and ruined my reputation,” she said.
Carol testified at one time that she was a respected advice columnist. “Now, I'm known as a liar, a fraud, and a handyman.”
Because the first jury found that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial concerns only how much more — if any — he will be required to pay her for other statements he made in 2019 while in prison. Authority. president.
Trump, who juggles court appearances and campaign stops, participated in jury selection on Tuesday. Before opening statements began, he left for a rally in New Hampshire.
He announced on social media on Tuesday that the case was nothing but “concocted lies and political tricks” that earned his accuser money and fame.
“I am the only person who was hurt by this extortion attempt,” a post on his Truth Social platform said.
Carroll said Trump hurt her deeply. First, she claims, he forced himself on her in a dressing room after a chance encounter in a luxury department store in 1996. Then he publicly impugned her honesty, her motives and even her sanity after she told the story publicly in her 2019 memoir.
Carol confirmed that she lost millions of readers and her long post in deer magazine, whose advice column “Ask E. Jane” has run for more than a quarter-century, has been fueled by her allegations and Trump’s response to them. deer She said her contract was not renewed for unrelated reasons.
Trump maintains that nothing happened between him and Carroll and that he never met her. He says the photo he took at a 1987 party of them and their then-husbands “doesn't count” because it was a temporary tribute.
Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when the jury found that he had sexually assaulted Carroll and defamed her reputation and awarded her $5 million ($7.6 million) in damages. But the jury said Carroll did not prove her claim that Trump raped her.
Carroll is now seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in punitive damages.
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