WEIS Article RatingE. Jean Carroll defamation case live updates: Trump takes the stand for 3 minutes - WEIS | Local & Area News, Sports, & Weather
Jan 25, 2024 View Original Article
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| "100" | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "That is my understanding, Habba replied." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "On redirect, Trump affirmed he was represented by counsel." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Yes I did, that's exactly right, Trump responded." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Trump may take the witness stand when the proceedings resume after a break." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.Jan 25, 2:26 PMJudge provides instructions on scope of testimonyPrior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina and that Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Instead, Trump has sat calmly and listened to the testimony, occasionally conferring quietly with his attorneys." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The jury also saw a portion of Trump's videotaped deposition for Carroll's case that he sat for in October 2022, in which Trump was given a copy of the 2019 New York magazine article that first published Carroll's sexual assault allegation." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Mr. President, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll?No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency, Trump answered." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw the excerpt of the deposition in which Trump was handed an old black-and-white photo of him, his first wife Ivana, Carroll, and her then-husband John Johnson, and temporarily mistook Carroll for his second wife Marla Maples." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Trump is seated at the defense table with his attorneys." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The judge struck everything after the word no.On cross-examination Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan asked whether this is the first trial with Carroll that Trump has attended." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Trump wrote." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "No, Trump responded." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "That's not my argument, Habba replied." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Physically, she's not my type, Trump responded." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Kaplan said the jury would be instructed that, regardless of what Trump says on the witness stand, he did it." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "When Habba asked whether Myers plaed to vote for Trump in 2024, Myers answered, I don't think I have to say what I plan to do." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Trump watched Myers' testimony from his seat at the defense table." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In a series of other posts, Trump also disparaged Carroll, said she made up her story, and suggested she was a paid political operative." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, asked Trump on the witness stand." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "The judge reminded the defense that Trump caot make any argument disputing or undermining those determinations." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "On cross-examination, defense attorney Alina Habba established that Myers is a registered Democrat who did not vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Habba said Trump will also say that he had to respond to the allegation and did not instruct anyone to disparage Carroll.Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, complained that while Habba was giving her proffer, Mr. Trump said under his breath that he never met her and had never seen her before." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Trump responded, Yes.The jury also heard Trump in the deposition affirm that he stood by a June 24, 2019, statement in which he said Carroll was not my type.You meant she was not your type, physically right?" | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Unlike when Trump attended the trial last week, there have been no outbursts from Trump and no sparring with the judge." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 1:31 PMCarroll's friend testifies she was 'very concerned' for herOn cross-examination by Carroll's attorney Shawn Crowley, former television newswoman Carol Martin explained the safety concerns she said she had due to her association with E. Jean Carroll and her lawsuit against Donald Trump." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Martin testified that at some point she became frustrated with what Habba described as Carroll's celebratory behavior in coection with her lawsuits against Trump." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Kaplan said the prior trial also established Trump's statements of denial were defamatory and that Trump knew they were false, had serious doubts as to the truth of what he said or made those statements with a high degree of awareness that they were probably false." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations a Hoax and a lie and saying This woman is not my type!Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Habba argued, as she did in her opening statement, that people were disparaging Carroll prior to Trump issuing his defamatory denials." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Trump was overheard saying he was not at the first trial and that he does not know this woman as Habba tried to affirm Trump understood the confines of his testimony." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Martin testified that she did, on some levels, have concern for her safety and her daughter's safety after Carroll went public in 2019 with her sexual assault accusation against Donald Trump." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her around 1996 but can't pinpoint the year." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, Yeah.Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?Jan 25, 2:19 PMTrump takes the standDefense calls President Donald Trump, attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense." | Negative | -80% Liberal |
| "All times Eastern:Jan 25, 2:48 PM'This is not America,' Trump mutters as he leaves courtNot America, Donald Trump muttered as he exited the courtroom following his testimony." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award." | Negative | -92% Liberal |
| "If Trump takes the stand today, he would be baed from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her." | Negative | -94% Liberal |
| "100" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "On redirect, Trump affirmed he was represented by counsel." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Yes I did, that's exactly right, Trump responded." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Trump may take the witness stand when the proceedings resume after a break." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Jan 25, 9:57 AMTrump is in courtFormer President Donald Trump has arrived in court this morning." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.Jan 25, 2:26 PMJudge provides instructions on scope of testimonyPrior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina and that Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.Jan 25, 2:26 PMJudge provides instructions on scope of testimonyPrior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina and that Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.Jan 25, 2:26 PMJudge provides instructions on scope of testimonyPrior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina and that Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Instead, Trump has sat calmly and listened to the testimony, occasionally conferring quietly with his attorneys." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The jury also saw a portion of Trump's videotaped deposition for Carroll's case that he sat for in October 2022, in which Trump was given a copy of the 2019 New York magazine article that first published Carroll's sexual assault allegation." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The jury also saw a portion of Trump's videotaped deposition for Carroll's case that he sat for in October 2022, in which Trump was given a copy of the 2019 New York magazine article that first published Carroll's sexual assault allegation." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Mr. President, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll?No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency, Trump answered." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Mr. Trump was saying he didn't lose the election" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The defense, meanwhile, has asked the judge for a directed verdict to halt the proceedings and decide the case in their favor.Jan 25, 11:12 AMCarroll's attorneys highlight clips from Trump's 2022 depositionE. Jean Carroll's attorneys ended their defamation case against former President Trump by showing the jury some of Trump's social media posts and soundbites from his campaign rallies in which he repeats the defamatory statements he has made about her." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The defense, meanwhile, has asked the judge for a directed verdict to halt the proceedings and decide the case in their favor.Jan 25, 11:12 AMCarroll's attorneys highlight clips from Trump's 2022 depositionE. Jean Carroll's attorneys ended their defamation case against former President Trump by showing the jury some of Trump's social media posts and soundbites from his campaign rallies in which he repeats the defamatory statements he has made about her." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 1:56 PMTrump, observing proceedings, is more subdued than last weekWith the morning session completed, a more subdued Donald Trump has been in the courtroom today." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 7:53 AMTrump indicates he'll attend trial today, could take standIn a post to his Truth Social platform overnight, former President Trump indicated that he will attend his defamation damages trial today." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 10:19 AMElle magazine editor takes the standAfter a late start, today's proceedings are underway in former President Trump's defamation damages trial." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Trump is seated at the defense table with his attorneys." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Kaplan, in the deposition, also read Trump's defamatory response to the article and asked, Do you stand by the statement?" | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "He said there is cause for concern that Trump's testimony might contain inadmissible evidence." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Trump wrote." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "It turned out to be Trump campaign spokesperson Stephen Cheung- who was removed from the courtroom by security." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "They will now give way to Trump's attorneys to present the defense's case." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "No, Trump responded." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Physically, she's not my type, Trump responded." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Kaplan said the jury would be instructed that, regardless of what Trump says on the witness stand, he did it." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "As part of the defense's case, Trump's lawyers also plan to call Carol Martin, a friend of Carroll's who testified in the earlier assault and defamation trial." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 2:33 PMTrump testifies he denied allegations to defend himselfDo you stand by your testimony in your deposition?" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "When Habba asked whether Myers plaed to vote for Trump in 2024, Myers answered, I don't think I have to say what I plan to do." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Trump watched Myers' testimony from his seat at the defense table." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 9:00 AMCarroll's attorneys expected to rest their caseIf former President Trump takes the stand in his own defense today, it will happen after Carroll's attorneys rest their case." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Habba has argued that the harm Carroll said she suffered as a result of Trump's defamatory statements is overblown." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Ms. Carroll has failed to establish any causal link between her claim for damages and President Trump's statement, defense attorney Alina Habba said." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "In a series of other posts, Trump also disparaged Carroll, said she made up her story, and suggested she was a paid political operative." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Former President Donald Trump is on trial this week in New York City to determine whether he will have to pay former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll additional damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, asked Trump on the witness stand." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, asked Trump on the witness stand." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The judge reminded the defense that Trump caot make any argument disputing or undermining those determinations." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "On cross-examination, defense attorney Alina Habba established that Myers is a registered Democrat who did not vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Habba said Trump will also say that he had to respond to the allegation and did not instruct anyone to disparage Carroll.Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, complained that while Habba was giving her proffer, Mr. Trump said under his breath that he never met her and had never seen her before." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Habba said Trump will also say that he had to respond to the allegation and did not instruct anyone to disparage Carroll.Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, complained that while Habba was giving her proffer, Mr. Trump said under his breath that he never met her and had never seen her before." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Trump responded, Yes.The jury also heard Trump in the deposition affirm that he stood by a June 24, 2019, statement in which he said Carroll was not my type.You meant she was not your type, physically right?" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump responded, Yes.The jury also heard Trump in the deposition affirm that he stood by a June 24, 2019, statement in which he said Carroll was not my type.You meant she was not your type, physically right?" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Unlike when Trump attended the trial last week, there have been no outbursts from Trump and no sparring with the judge." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Jan 25, 1:31 PMCarroll's friend testifies she was 'very concerned' for herOn cross-examination by Carroll's attorney Shawn Crowley, former television newswoman Carol Martin explained the safety concerns she said she had due to her association with E. Jean Carroll and her lawsuit against Donald Trump." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Martin testified that at some point she became frustrated with what Habba described as Carroll's celebratory behavior in coection with her lawsuits against Trump." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Kaplan said the prior trial also established Trump's statements of denial were defamatory and that Trump knew they were false, had serious doubts as to the truth of what he said or made those statements with a high degree of awareness that they were probably false." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Kaplan said the prior trial also established Trump's statements of denial were defamatory and that Trump knew they were false, had serious doubts as to the truth of what he said or made those statements with a high degree of awareness that they were probably false." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations a Hoax and a lie and saying This woman is not my type!Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations a Hoax and a lie and saying This woman is not my type!Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Habba argued, as she did in her opening statement, that people were disparaging Carroll prior to Trump issuing his defamatory denials." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Trump was overheard saying he was not at the first trial and that he does not know this woman as Habba tried to affirm Trump understood the confines of his testimony." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Trump was overheard saying he was not at the first trial and that he does not know this woman as Habba tried to affirm Trump understood the confines of his testimony." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Martin testified that she did, on some levels, have concern for her safety and her daughter's safety after Carroll went public in 2019 with her sexual assault accusation against Donald Trump." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her around 1996 but can't pinpoint the year." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, Yeah.Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, Yeah.Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, Yeah.Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?Jan 25, 2:19 PMTrump takes the standDefense calls President Donald Trump, attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?Jan 25, 2:19 PMTrump takes the standDefense calls President Donald Trump, attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?Jan 25, 2:19 PMTrump takes the standDefense calls President Donald Trump, attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "All times Eastern:Jan 25, 2:48 PM'This is not America,' Trump mutters as he leaves courtNot America, Donald Trump muttered as he exited the courtroom following his testimony." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "All times Eastern:Jan 25, 2:48 PM'This is not America,' Trump mutters as he leaves courtNot America, Donald Trump muttered as he exited the courtroom following his testimony." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "If Trump takes the stand today, he would be baed from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "If Trump takes the stand today, he would be baed from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "If Trump takes the stand today, he would be baed from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
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66% : "100% yes," Trump responded.66% : "That is my understanding," Habba replied.
65% : On redirect, Trump affirmed he was represented by counsel.
64% : "Yes I did, that's exactly right," Trump responded.
56% : Trump may take the witness stand when the proceedings resume after a break.
51% : Trump then stepped down from the stand, his testimony over after all of three minutes.Jan 25, 2:26 PMJudge provides instructions on scope of testimonyPrior to Trump taking the witness stand, Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded the parties, outside the jury's presence, that a prior trial found "Mr. Trump in fact sexually abused Ms. Carroll by forcibly and without consent inserting his fingers into her vagina" and that "Ms. Carroll did not make up her claim of forcible sexual abuse.
50% : Instead, Trump has sat calmly and listened to the testimony, occasionally conferring quietly with his attorneys.
50% : The jury also saw a portion of Trump's videotaped deposition for Carroll's case that he sat for in October 2022, in which Trump was given a copy of the 2019 New York magazine article that first published Carroll's sexual assault allegation.
49% : "Mr. President, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll?""No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency," Trump answered.
46% : "The jury also saw the excerpt of the deposition in which Trump was handed an old black-and-white photo of him, his first wife Ivana, Carroll, and her then-husband John Johnson, and temporarily mistook Carroll for his second wife Marla Maples.
45% : Trump is seated at the defense table with his attorneys.
44% : The judge struck everything after the word "no."On cross-examination Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan asked whether this is the first trial with Carroll that Trump has attended.
43% : Trump wrote.
42% : "No," Trump responded.
41% : "That's not my argument," Habba replied.
41% : "Physically, she's not my type," Trump responded.
40% : "Kaplan said the jury would be instructed that, regardless of what Trump says on the witness stand, "he did it.
37% : When Habba asked whether Myers planned to vote for Trump in 2024, Myers answered, "I don't think I have to say what I plan to do.
37% : "Trump watched Myers' testimony from his seat at the defense table.
33% : In a series of other posts, Trump also disparaged Carroll, said she made up her story, and suggested she was a paid political operative.
31% : Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, asked Trump on the witness stand.
29% : "The judge reminded the defense that Trump cannot make any argument "disputing or undermining those determinations."
27% : On cross-examination, defense attorney Alina Habba established that Myers is a registered Democrat who did not vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020.
24% : "Habba said Trump will also say that he had to respond to the allegation and did not instruct anyone to disparage Carroll.Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, complained that while Habba was giving her proffer, "Mr. Trump said under his breath that he never met her and had never seen her before.
24% : Trump responded, "Yes."The jury also heard Trump in the deposition affirm that he stood by a June 24, 2019, statement in which he said Carroll was "not my type.""You meant she was not your type, physically right?"
22% : Unlike when Trump attended the trial last week, there have been no outbursts from Trump and no sparring with the judge.
20% : Jan 25, 1:31 PMCarroll's friend testifies she was 'very concerned' for herOn cross-examination by Carroll's attorney Shawn Crowley, former television newswoman Carol Martin explained the safety concerns she said she had due to her association with E. Jean Carroll and her lawsuit against Donald Trump.
20% : "Martin testified that "at some point" she became frustrated with what Habba described as Carroll's "celebratory behavior" in connection with her lawsuits against Trump.
18% : "Kaplan said the prior trial also established Trump's statements of denial were defamatory and that Trump "knew they were false, had serious doubts as to the truth of what he said or made those statements with a high degree of awareness that they were probably false.
17% : Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is.
17% : "Habba argued, as she did in her opening statement, that people were disparaging Carroll prior to Trump issuing his defamatory denials.
15% : "Trump was overheard saying he was not at the first trial and that he does not "know this woman" as Habba tried to affirm Trump understood the confines of his testimony.
15% : "Martin testified that she did, "on some levels," have concern for her safety and her daughter's safety after Carroll went public in 2019 with her sexual assault accusation against Donald Trump.
15% : Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her around 1996 but can't pinpoint the year.
14% : After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, "Yeah."Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda.
10% : And did he instruct anyone to hurt Carroll?Jan 25, 2:19 PMTrump takes the stand"Defense calls President Donald Trump," attorney Alina Habba said as Trump took the stand in his own defense.
9% : All times Eastern:Jan 25, 2:48 PM'This is not America,' Trump mutters as he leaves court"Not America," Donald Trump muttered as he exited the courtroom following his testimony.
4% : The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award.
3% : If Trump takes the stand today, he would be banned from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.