After Trump’s word, the judge suspended the session until tomorrow when you will hear “final arguments” and make a final decision on the case.
New trial against Trump: complaint of sexual assault and defamation
In May, a jury had found guilty of sexual assault and defamation for statements from 2022 and sentenced him to pay the former Elle magazine columnist five million dollarsa ruling that is on appeal.
In this new prosecution, led by Judge Lewis Kaplan in federal court in southern Manhattan, Carroll, 80, claims 10 million dollars for having suffered defamation after the publication of a book and an article in 2019 in which he said that Trump had raped her in a large shopping center in 1996.
The former president of USAwho called Carroll a “moron,” had argued that she “wasn’t his type” and? He had invented the rape to “sell his new book”titled “Why do we need men? A modest proposal.”
This trial does not have as its axis the rape complaint but Trump’s subsequent statements, since the writer pointed out that they had destroyed her reputation, for which she also claims damages. She explained that she did not file the complaint at the time since the accused was president and had immunity.
Donald Trump testified in court and denied the accusations
Donald Trump declared today, after being summoned in his own defense. The testimony was short, after Judge Kaplan ordered restrictions that did not allow him claim that he did not assault Carroll or that she lied about the rape allegationsince those questions were not before the jury, according to the CNN television channel.
His defender, Alina Habba, asked Trump if he had responded to the accusation Carroll made in 2019.
“Yes I did,” Trump said. “She said something that I considered a false accusation, totally false.” he added. The judge, however, cut Trump off, saying, “Everything after ‘yes I did’ is struck out.”
The lawyer’s final question to Trump was: “Did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll?”
Trump responded: “No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and, frankly, the presidency,” and thus he concluded his statement, without further questions from either party.
Also testifying today at the trial were Roberta Myers, editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, who had been the journalist’s superior authority, and Carol Martin, former anchor of New York’s Channel 2 television, one of the few people to whom Carroll confessed. sexual assault.
Obstacle to the presidency?: the four criminal trials facing Donald Trump
The favorite candidate for the Republican nomination ahead of the November presidential election faces four criminal trials.
The most commented was the assault by his followers on the Capitol on January 6, 2021when they tried to prevent the certification of votes from the 2020 election, which the Democrat and current president Joe Biden had won.
In that trial, which will begin on March 4, he is accused of conspiracy to deceive the United States and conspiracy for obstruct an official proceedingwhile in another that follows him in Georgia he is accused of trying to alter the result of the 2020 elections.
In Miami, Florida, a federal court accused the former president of “retention of classified documents and “obstruction of a federal investigation” for having taken boxes full of confidential official White House documents upon leaving the presidency.
In New York, a court indicted him for tax fraud in connection with undeclared payments to silence porn actress Stormy Danielswith whom he had an extramarital relationship, so that it would not harm his presidential candidacy in 2016.
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