E. Jean Carroll testifies before Judge Lewis Kaplan as former United States President Donald Trump looks on, in Manhattan Federal Court, in New York (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threatened Wednesday to expel Donald Trump from the court in New York after the former president repeatedly ignored orders to remain silent while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that the magnate ruined her reputation after She accused him of sexual abuse.
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Kaplan told Trump that his right to be in court could be revoked if he continued to disrupt the proceedings. After an initial warning, one of the columnist’s lawyers said that the former president continued to make comments to his lawyers such as “this is a witch hunt” and “this really is a fraud.”
“Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial,” the judge declared after the jury was allowed to leave for lunch, adding: “I understand that you probably want me to do that.”
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“I would love to,” Trump responded, shrugging as he sat between his attorneys Alina Habba and Michael Madaio at the defense table.
“I know you would love it. You just can’t control yourself under these circumstances, apparently,” Kaplan responded.
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“Neither are you,” Trump muttered.
E. Jean Carroll said during the trial that Trump’s accusations ended her world (Europa Press/Contact/Laura Brett)
During his presentation, Carroll stated before the federal court in Manhattan that the magnate ended the world in which he lived: “That the president of the United States, one of the most powerful people in the world, calls me a liar for three days and says so 26 times, I counted, it ended the world I had been living in.”
The writer maintained that the former North American president destroyed not only his reputation, but his life, since he is now constantly “alert” due to the hundreds of threats he receives on social networks. “I will rape you, E. Jean Carroll,” reads one of those messages, shown during the trial.
“I warned the neighbors to be alert and bought bullets for the gun I had inherited from my father,” he said, explaining the security measures he took when, after the barrage of messages, it crossed his mind that someone could arrive. to shoot it.
In May, a court ruled that Trump must pay $5 million in damages to Carroll, $2.9 million of which was for defaming her. In this new trial, Carroll has requested $10 million in damages.
Carroll maintains that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan store in the mid-90s (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
The case dates back to the legal challenge that the journalist filed in 2019 before a state court against Trump for defamation due to the way in which the New York mogul denied a first rape complaint, saying that “she was not his type” and that “He did it to sell” his book.
The journalist wrote in her book ‘Why do we need men?’ that Trump sexually assaulted her in the changing rooms of a Manhattan store in the mid-1990s. According to her, she met Trump on Fifth Avenue in New York and they went to a lingerie store in Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store, where the former president, according to her, raped her.
This trial comes amid Trump’s renewed attempts to return to the White House as he faces other legal proceedings, such as his recent indictment for concealing a series of bribes paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for to silence an alleged sexual affair.
(With information from AP and Europa Press)
2024-01-17 19:34:00
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