Trump Manages Three Whole Minutes On Witness Stand Without Getting Held In Contempt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Carroll's counsel Roberta Kaplan simply asked Trump if he'd attended the first trial.
39% : After the jury returned and he was sworn in, Trump was asked if he stood by his deposition testimony.
34% : After weeks of promising that he'd go down there and tell the jury that he'd never met the advice columnist, Trump sat in the witness chair for all of three minutes.
28% : The plaintiff's counsel treated the panel to a highlight reel of Trump denying Carroll's claims, admitting that he'd never read her book before he trashed it, mistaking a picture of Carroll for his first wife, and of course bragging about how fabulously wealthy he is -- KA-CHING!Trump's counsel Alina Habba continued to demonstrate her ... unexpected courtroom style.Having already petitioned twice for a mistrial, she also moved for judgment as a matter of law, citing Carroll's deletion of a handful of death threats -- something Trump's lawyers have known about for more than a year.
25% : Trump would not, under any circumstances, be allowed to repeat his performance in New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron's courtroom, where he shouted abuse at the court and made reference to excluded evidence on the witness stand.
22% : The jury filed out, and Trump left soon after, inveighing to anyone within earshot that "This is not America.
21% : The court has not yet ruled whether to allow Trump to claim that Carroll had a duty to mitigate her damages, or whether those damages must be offset by Carroll's positive media attention after the sitting president called her a liar and implied that she was too unattractive to sexually assault.

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