Sacred in New Hampshire, the billionaire will have to forget his campaign for a while.
The defamation trial filed by an author against Donald Trump resumes this Thursday.
The former President of the United States and current candidate for the next presidential election is expected to testify there.
Sexual assault and defamation
Since January 16, this civil trial has pitted a former columnist for the American edition of Elle magazine, Elizabeth Jean Carroll, 80, against Donald Trump, 77, whom she has already ordered to pay five million in civil court in May 2023. dollars in compensation for sexual assault in 1996 and, for the first time, for defamation.
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Wednesday evening, on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump launched 37 attacks against his complainant, whom he has continued to denigrate and insult for months by calling her "crazy", with a "phony story", also claiming that he has “never seen her in (his) life”.
By these denials, Donald Trump refers to a previous judgment.
Last May and unanimously by a popular jury, he was found responsible for sexual assault and defamation.
In a book in 2019, the author accused the former president of rape for the first time.
The plaintiff claims more than ten million dollars for moral and professional damage.
A year between campaign and court
Despite the fact that he is running for the next presidential election, Donald Trump's legal woes do not end with this trial.
On the criminal side, the former president is targeted by four cases.
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The American Supreme Court will examine on February 8, in a public hearing, the appeal of the former Republican president, who aspires to take his revenge at the polls, against the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court.
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The latter had, in the name of the 14th Amendment, ineligible the former president for the Republican primary.
In particular, his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. That day, Donald Trump tried in vain to reach the Capitol, and was finally satisfied with a short video message in which, regarding his defeat against Joe Biden, he spoke of a “stolen election”.