Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll's lawyers to make final arguments today in defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Habba made a routine request after Carroll rested her case, asking the judge to give Trump a win without consulting the jury.
33% : " Trump canceled a planned fundraiser for the Arizona Republican party Friday.
31% : The closing arguments come after Trump managed to clash with the judge during just a few minutes on the witness stand on Thursday, as he tried to barrel through restrictions on his testimony.
30% : it's a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT..." Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting Carroll after a separate civil trial last May and was ordered to pay her about $2 million for that abuse, plus about $3 million more for defaming her in 2022, when he called her allegation a "con job."
27% : Based on that verdict, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Trump cannot deny the charges in the current case.
24% : Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump will make their final pitches to a New York federal jury Friday over whether the former president will have to pay a heavy price for defaming Carroll when, as president, he denied her allegations of sexual assault.
21% : The jury in Kaplan's Manhattan courtroom is now being asked to determine whether Trump should have to pay Carroll damages and, if so, how much.
17% : Trump said that "people should pay dearly for such false accusations."
4% : The current trial focuses on the lengthy denials Trump made in June 2019 after Carroll first went public with allegations that Trump had raped in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

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