![]() Kaplan warned Trump to control himself during the trial. "He said: 'It is a witch hunt, it really is a con job,'" Carroll's lawyer Shawn Crowley said outside the jury's presence. ![]() Judge warns Trump not to talk too loudÄuring Carroll's testimony, Trump often spoke with his lawyers, prompting one of Carroll's attorneys to complain that jurors could hear him. Trump had claimed he didn't know Carroll, and that she branded him a rapist to boost sales of her then-new memoir. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees the case, has already ruled that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the dressing room by forcing his fingers into her vagina, and defamed her for two statements he made in 2019 as president. In Wednesday's trial, Carroll is seeking another US$10m (NZ$16.4m) in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages. Last May, a different jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll US$5 million (NZ$8.2m), finding he had sexually abused the former Elle magazine advice columnist in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room, and defamed her in 2022 by denying that anything happened. "He lied, and it shattered my reputation." "I am here because Donald Trump assaulted me, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened," Carroll said in federal court in Manhattan in her second civil lawsuit against Trump. With Donald Trump looking on, the writer E Jean Carroll told jurors on Wednesday that the former US president destroyed her reputation and should pay damages for denying in 2019 that he had raped her decades ago. ![]() Photo: Kena Betancur and Andrew KELLY / various sources / AFP Writer E Jean Carroll and former US president Donald Trump.
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