Former President Donald Trump Angers New York Judge in Defamation Case

This Wednesday the 17th, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, was in a New York court and angered the judge, with his repeated interruptions, in the case against him for defamation against the writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll.

LOOK: Trump, his overwhelming victory in Iowa and what is coming in a Republican campaign that seems unnecessary

This process led by Judge Lewis Kaplan arose in June 2019, when Trump was still president. The then president claimed that he did not know Carroll and accused her of lying about the alleged sexual abuse that he had suffered from the New York magnate in the 1990s.

In May 2023, a jury convicted Trump of sexual abuse and defamation of the writer, but not of rape. Since then, the former Republican governor has maintained the version of him in which he does not know the writer.

According to Carroll’s defense, this led to his client being harassed via social media by Trump supporters, disrupting her life.

“He used the largest microphone in the world to attack Ms. Carroll, humiliate her and destroy her reputation,” said attorney Shawn Crowley, part of Carroll’s legal defense. “It is time to make her pay dearly for what she has done.”

In this process, which Judge Kaplan estimates will last between 3 and 5 days, the jury will have to decide whether Trump harmed Carroll with his statements and, if found guilty, what the corresponding compensation would be.

At his sentencing in May of last year, Trump was ordered to pay $5 million in reparations to Carroll. Now, the victim requests a minimum of 10 million dollars in compensation for the damages caused by the former president.

Trump faces this process in the middle of the Republican primary campaign to return to the White House again and it is just a sample of what awaits him during this election year. In the following infographic prepared by El Comercio, review the trials that Trump will have to face the rest of the year.

2024-01-18 01:13:32
#Trumps #sentence #case #Jean #Carroll #trials #await