Closing arguments to begin in E. Jean Carroll’s damages trial against Trump
Closing arguments are set to begin Friday morning in E. Jean Carroll’s damages trial against Trump, in which the writer is expected to seek well over $10 million for the former president’s repeatedly defaming her by calling her sexual abuse allegations against him a “con job.”
Trump, who took the stand Thursday for the second time since his presidential re-election campaign began, is in attendance for Friday’s proceedings.
Trump delivered dramatic but brief testimony, saying he lashed out at Carroll after she went public with her allegations in 2019 because he wanted “to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency.” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the comment stricken from the record because it wasn’t responsive to the question to which he was responding.