The ex-president donald trump turned down his last chance to testify in a civil trial in which an advice columnist accused him of rape her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in 1996.
Trump, republican candidate to the presidency in 2024, he had until 5:00 p.m. local time on Sunday from the federal district judge Lewis A Kaplan to submit a request to testify. Nothing was presented.
Trump has denied raping the writer
NEWS: Despite his empty boasts to reporters about confronting E. Jean Carroll in her rape and defamation lawsuit against him, Trump allowed the 5pm Sunday deadline to pass and will not testify in court.
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May 8, 2023
It was not a surprise. Trump failed to appear once during the two-week trial in New York City, where writer E Jean Carroll testified over several days, repeating claims she first made publicly in a 2019 memoir. compensatory and punitive damages totaling millions of dollars.
The jury also saw lengthy excerpts from a videotaped deposition in October in which Trump vehemently denied that he raped Carroll or actually knew her.
Without Trump’s testimony, the lawyers were scheduled to present closing arguments Monday, with deliberations likely to begin Tuesday.
After the plaintiffs rested their case on Thursday, Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, immediately rested the defense’s case as well without calling any witnesses. He did not request additional time for Trump to decide to testify. Tacopina declined to comment to the Associated Press news agency after he expired on Sunday.
Carroll sued Trump in November, minutes after New York state enacted a law allowing adult victims of sexual assault to sue others even if the attacks occurred decades earlier.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, wrote a letter to the judge on Sunday to complain that Trump has yet to remove April 26 posts on his social network calling Carroll’s allegations “a made-up scam.” And she pointed out that she repeated derogatory comments about the trial three days ago in Ireland.
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