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Donald Trump fired a volley against E. Jean Carroll before the hearing in New York.
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The civil trial in the Carroll case continues in New York.
Donald Trump is there.
However, the judge cuts him off.
New York – Donald Trump is usually in charge.
When he performs, no one interrupts him and his tirades are legendary.
But things sometimes look different in court.
That was also the case in New York.
Judge Lewis Kaplan only allowed three questions, to which Trump could only answer “yes” or “no.”
This made it virtually impossible for Trump to make sweeping statements.
In the civil lawsuit, author E. Jean Carroll is demanding more than ten million dollars (9.1 million euros) in damages from Trump for defamatory statements.
Her allegations are serious: Carroll accuses the Republican of raping her in a New York department store in 1996.
When she first made her accusation public in 2019, the then US President accused her of lying and claimed that she was not his “type”.
Trump also claimed this when questioned in October 2022. According to the
Guardian,
this video was played to the jury again this time.
The images are extremely embarrassing for Trump: he mistakenly identified Carroll as his former wife Marla Maples in a photo from the 1990s.
E. Jean Carroll demands compensation from Donald Trump
Surname |
Elizabeth Jean Carroll |
Born |
December 12, 1943 |
Place of birth |
Detroit |
Profession |
Journalist, author, columnist |
Judge calls Trump to order and threatens to throw him out of the courtroom
In the first trial, Trump was sentenced to $5 million in damages.
However, after again denying Carroll's allegations in a
CNN
interview, calling them "crazy", Carroll called for harsher punishment.
Trump doesn't want to put up with that.
On the eve of the hearing, he launched a barrage of 37 verbal attacks against Carroll on his online platform Truth Social, defaming her and questioning the credibility of her evidence.
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Trump initially didn't calm down in the courtroom either.
He commented on Carroll's statements in a way that was easy for everyone involved in the room to hear.
The judge then called Trump to order and threatened to exclude him from the courtroom.
At one point, Trump denied the accusation that he directed anyone to harm Carroll.
“She said something that I considered to be false,” Trump said, according to an
AFP
correspondent, before the judge cut him off.
As he left the hall, Trump was visibly upset: “This is not America,” he said.
Trump presents himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” by the Democrats
The hearing took place shortly after Trump's victory in the Republican primary in New Hampshire.
There is now hardly anything standing in the way of his candidacy for the 2024 US election.
Trump himself is using his legal problems in the election campaign and presenting himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” by the Democrats.
He claims they are trying to block his return to the White House.
(cs/afp)
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