Former President Trump took the stand on Thursday in a civil defamation damages lawsuit stemming from a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, who was accused of sexually assaulting her in a department store fitting room in the 1990s. Ta.
The 2024 Republican front-runner vehemently denied the allegations. His denials led to Trump being slapped with a defamation lawsuit, accusing Carroll's response of damaging her reputation.
When Trump took the stand Thursday, he was asked three questions by his defense team.
Trump was first asked if he had seen the deposition taking place in court, to which he replied, “Yes.”
Next, when asked if he stood by what he said in the deposition, he answered, “100 percent, yes.”
Third, he was asked if he had ever threatened Carroll in a tweet or social media post.
“No,” President Trump said. “I was just protecting myself from false allegations.”
The judge criticized President Trump's comments for going beyond a yes-or-no answer.
“This is not America,” Trump repeated on his way out of the courtroom.
E. Jean Carroll arrives in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, in New York. Less than a year after convincing a jury that former President Donald Trump sexually abused her decades ago, author E. Jean Carroll is back on the stand, after coming forward. I'm going to explain how his verbal attacks affected her. (AP Photo/Eduardo Muñoz Alvarez, File)
Trump and his defense team have argued that Carroll's claims are a fabrication, and the former president's initial reactions included accusations that Carroll's motive was to sell copies of her book. .
President Trump repeatedly told Fox News Digital: “I have no idea who this woman is.”
Carroll, 79, alleged that Trump raped her sometime in 1996 at the Bergdorf Goodman department store across from Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Former President Donald Trump speaks after leaving the courtroom for recess at the New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023. The infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” video, in which Trump was caught making misogynistic remarks on a hot mic more than a decade before he took office, shows that Trump's disparaging federal judge columnist, E. The court issued a ruling on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, setting out the ground rules for next week's trial that can be shown to the jury that will decide what Jean Carroll is owed. (AP Photo/Eduardo Muñoz Alvarez, File)
A federal jury in New York City ruled last year that Trump was not responsible for rape but was responsible for sexual abuse and defamation. The former president was ordered to pay $5 million.
Last week, President Trump posted an image of Carroll's tweets dating back to 2015 on his Truth Social account. In one image, Carroll wrote, “How do you know that an 'unwanted sexual advance' is unwanted until you make one yourself?”
Trump also said that Carroll was “making noise all over the place” about the timing of this alleged 'incident' when it didn't actually happen, and that Robert, the lunatic radical left-wing Democrat operative lawyer who previously sued me,・I am receiving guidance from Mr. Kaplan.'' And I just lost. ”
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“I am the only person injured in this extortion attempt,” Trump wrote.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will preside over the trial.
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