Removed from hiding his a number of authorized issues, Trump has turned courtroom periods into quasi-campaign occasions, claiming that every trial is a part of a Democratic institution try to stop his return to the White Home for a second time period.
Author E Jean Carroll is searching for greater than US$10 million in damages for defamation by Trump in a federal court docket in New York, which has the ability solely to impose a civil penalty, not a prison conviction.
The 77-year-old Trump – whom a jury discovered accountable for sexual assault in a separate federal civil case in New York – has beforehand indicated he would search to testify this time round.
Trump individually faces a number of prison instances, together with his alleged try to overthrow the outcomes of the 2020 election, which he misplaced to Biden and a civil fraud case.
The previous Republican president unleashed a rare battery of assaults on Carroll, utilizing his Reality Social platform to smear her and deny the veracity of her proof all through 37 late-night messages.
Carroll, 80, alleges that Trump defamed her in 2019, when she first made her assault allegations public, by saying she “is just not my sort”.
