The former president of the United States Donald Trump will return to the dock this Tuesday in a court of NY, where a jury will have to decide how much money should be paid to the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her. The appointment, to which he himself Trump wants to attend in person, it is the second trial that the Republican faces in the last week in the same city.
Last Thursday the final arguments in the civil case for fraud against his family business, in which the former president faces a MORE of up to 370 million dollars and a lifetime veto in the real estate sector of the state of NY.
Last Thursday the final arguments in the civil case for fraud against his family business concluded. PHOTO: AFP
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This Tuesday, Trump will have to respond to very different accusations: defaming Carroll when he assured, in 2019, that he did not know the writer and that his confession that the former president had sexually abused her in the 1990s was false.
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Last May, a jury already convicted Trump for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer, but not for rape. Since then, the former president has continued to defend that he does not know her and cast doubt on her version of events.
Trump declared last week his intention to also attend his defamation trial in person. PHOTO: AFP
Last Thursday, after briefly participating in the closing arguments of his trial for fraud and reiterate his position that all the processes against him are part of a political campaign, Trump He declared his intention to also attend his defamation trial in person, something he did not do during the abuse case.
His announcement sparked a legal battle between Carroll’s lawyers, who do not want the judgment becomes a circus, and Trump’s. In a decision issued last Tuesday, the judge presiding over the trial, Lewis Kaplan, ruled that Trump cannot dispute the allegations of abuse against him.
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He also decided that Carroll must not prove that Trump defamed her, since her allegations are practically the same as those of the previous trial.
The judge presiding over the trial, Lewis Kaplan, ruled that Trump cannot dispute the abuse allegations against him. PHOTO: AFP
“This trial will not be a repetition of the previous one,” reads its decision.
Carroll’s lawyers, however, do not trust Trump to follow the rules and on Friday asked Kaplan to restrict the former president’s comments.
And Trump testifies as a witness at trial, Carroll’s attorney wrote, “his recent statements and behavior strongly suggest that he will seek to create chaos,” adding that “there are many reasons why Mr. Trump he might perceive that turning this trial into a circus would work in his favor.
With information from EFE
2024-01-15 20:25:00
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