NEW YORK: Donald Trump briefly testified Thursday (Jan 25) in a defamation courtroom case, his first look since profitable New Hampshire’s major and drawing nearer to an election rematch with President Joe Biden.
Removed from hiding his a number of authorized issues, Trump has turned courtroom classes into quasi-campaign occasions, claiming that every trial is a part of a Democratic institution try to forestall his return to the White Home for a second time period.
Author E Jean Carroll is in search of greater than US$10 million in damages for defamation by Trump in a federal courtroom in New York, which has the ability solely to impose a civil penalty, not a felony conviction.
The 77-year-old Trump – whom a jury discovered responsible for the sexual assault of Carroll in a separate federal civil case in New York – took the stand to disclaim he instructed anybody to hurt Carroll together with his statements.
Choose Lewis Kaplan restricted Trump to 3 questions from his attorneys, to which he might solely reply sure or no to forestall him from digressing from the case.
“She says one thing I thought of false,” Trump started to say earlier than Kaplan minimize him off.
“This isn’t America,” Trump stated as he left the courtroom following his brief look.
Trump individually faces a number of felony instances, together with his alleged try and overthrow the outcomes of the 2020 election, which he misplaced to Biden and a civil fraud case.
In a single day the previous Republican president unleashed a battery of assaults on Carroll, utilizing his Fact Social platform to smear her and deny the veracity of her proof all through 37 messages.
Carroll, 80, alleges that Trump defamed her in 2019, when she first made her assault allegations public, by saying she “shouldn’t be my kind.”
