Trump heads to courtroom as rape accuser E. Jean Carroll takes stand
Donald Trump sported mysterious crimson marks on his hand as he made his option to courtroom to look at his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll testify in New York City on Wednesday morning.
The former president, 77, flew again to New York late on Tuesday evening after a marketing campaign rally in New Hampshire to cap off a whirlwind 24 hours since successful the Iowa caucuses.
DailyMail.com captured him leaving Trump Tower early on Wednesday morning with mysterious crimson cuts on his hand, hours after braving a snowstorm to talk to supporters alongside former 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy.
Carroll testified Wednesday within the second federal civil trial over her claims in opposition to Trump, who denies all of them.
She informed the New York jury that Trump ‘shattered her repute’ by ‘mendacity’ about sexually assaulting her and calling her a ‘wack job’.
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba was additionally informed to ‘sit down’ by Judge Lewis Kaplan after he rejected her bid to delay the trial so the previous president might attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
Donald Trump will watch rape accuser E. Jean Carroll testify in opposition to him as he heads again to a Manhattan courtroom for the $10million defamation trial.
DailyMail.com captured him leaving Trump Tower early on Wednesday morning with what seemed to be cuts on his hand
Because the primary jury discovered that Trump sexually abused Carroll within the Nineteen Nineties after which defamed her in 2022, the brand new trial considerations different remarks Trump made whereas he was president.
Trump, who’s juggling courtroom appearances with marketing campaign stops as he leads the Republican discipline on this yr’s presidential race, sat in on jury choice Tuesday.
Subsequently, Trump’s lawyer contended that Carroll has by no means been extra well-known and that she is blaming him for ‘a number of imply tweets from Twitter trolls.’
Meanwhile, Trump declared on social media Tuesday that the case was nothing however ‘fabricated lies and political shenanigans’ that had garnered his accuser cash and fame.
‘I’m the one one injured by this tried EXTORTION,’ learn a put up on his Truth Social platform.
But Carroll, an recommendation columnist and journal author, has mentioned that Trump harmed her deeply. First, she claims, he pressured himself on her in a dressing room after an opportunity assembly at a luxurious division retailer in 1996.
Then he publicly impugned her honesty, her motives and even her sanity after she informed the story publicly in a 2019 memoir.
‘He referred to as me a liar repeatedly, and it actually has decimated my repute. I’m a journalist. The one factor I’ve to have is the belief of the readers,’ she testified in April on the first trial. ‘I’m now not believed.’
Carroll has maintained she misplaced hundreds of thousands of readers and her longtime gig at Elle Magazine, the place her ‘Ask E. Jean’ recommendation column ran for over a quarter-century, due to her allegations and Trump’s response to them.
Elle has mentioned her contract wasn’t renewed for unrelated causes.
One of Carroll’s attorneys, Shawn Crowley, mentioned in her opening assertion that the author additionally obtained violent threats from Trump backers.
Carroll is because of testify Wednesday within the second federal civil trial over her claims in opposition to Trump, who denies all of them
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba walked with the previous president to his motorcade to make the best way to courtroom
The former president, 77, flew again to New York late on Tuesday evening after a marketing campaign rally in New Hampshire to cap off a whirlwind 24 hours since successful the Iowa caucus
Trump, who’s juggling courtroom appearances with marketing campaign stops as he leads the Republican discipline on this yr’s presidential race, sat in on jury choice Tuesday
In this courtroom sketch, E. Jean Carroll, proper, turns round in the direction of former President Donald Trump
People maintain indicators exterior the Manhattan federal courtroom in New York in assist of E. Jean Carroll’s allegations
E. Jean Carroll watches as her lawyer Shawn Crowley opens within the second civil trial after Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her many years in the past
In this courtroom sketch, potential jurors file into the courtroom as Donald Trump, third left, stands surrounded by his protection workforce. Alina Habba, fourth left, Trump’s lead protection legal professional, stands beside him. E. Jean Carroll, background second from proper, stands together with her legal professional Roberta Kaplan, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in New York
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll and their attorneys stand for the jury as they attend jury choice
E Jean Carroll arrives for her defamation trial in opposition to Former President Donald Trump at New York Federal Court on January 16, 2024 in New York City
Trump legal professional Alina Habba countered that Carroll was searching for to carry the previous president accountable for ‘a number of imply tweets from Twitter trolls.’
He was ‘merely defending himself’ in his feedback about his accuser, Habba mentioned in her opening.
Trump asserts that nothing ever occurred between him and Carroll, certainly that he has by no means even met her. There’s a 1987 social gathering picture of them and their then-spouses, however Trump says it was a momentary greeting that ‘would not depend.’
Trump didn’t attend the earlier trial within the case final May, when a jury discovered he had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and $5 million damages. The jury mentioned, nonetheless, that Carroll hadn’t confirmed her declare that Trump raped her.
Carroll is now searching for $10 million in compensatory damages and hundreds of thousands extra in punitive damages.
