Former President Donald Trump takes the witness stand in the second civil defamation trial brought against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll. His lawyers join a motion by a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis because of allegations of an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, meanwhile, sentences Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Trump’s administration, to… Source link
Read More »Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Tirade Comes Back To Bite Him Hours Later
All Tuesday morning, former President Donald Trump used social media to attack writer E. Jean Carroll. By Tuesday afternoon, it was part of the court record in her latest defamation trial against him. An attorney for Carroll, Shawn Crowley, nodded to Trump’s diatribe in her opening statements as she told a panel of New York City jurors that Trump has publicly smeared her client ever since she came forward to accuse him of sexual assault. Carroll maintains that Trump raped her in a dressing… Source link
Read More »Trump ‘unleashed his followers’ on E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer tells jury
In her opening statement Tuesday, E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer Shawn Crowley tells the jury in former President Donald Trump’s second defamation trial that he “unleashed his followers to go after her” by continually denying her claim that he raped her in a department store changing room in the 1990s. Judge Lewis Kaplan tells prospective jurors “it has been determined already that Mr. Trump did sexually assault Ms. Carroll.” Here are the latest legal developments surrounding the… Source link
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