This short squib on a trial, is to note that it is simply to set damages for Trump’s repeated and ongoing defamation and libel of her.
The first trial established that Trump knew he was lying, when he denied, in 2019-20, having sexually assaulted her — in a department store dressing room decades ago. [H/T, innercitypress.com.]
He has said she wasn’t “his type” (implying that was a defense!) — but then, in a depo, when shown a picture of himself smiling with Marla Maples, he said it was… Jean Carroll. Someone he claims he never met. Someone… who he thinks looks like his first wife — but is not “his type“.
Over the long weekend, Tangerine’s lawyers tried to introduce an old Anderson Cooper 360 interview that Ms. Carroll gave [presumably to show that she said she is getting along fine; that she isn’t shattered by his original violent sexual attack, any longer].
The able USDC Judge just ruled that would be irrelevant, in this trial.
The only question in this trial is whether Trump’s statements — which came after the first $25 million verdict — were false when made, and whether he should have had reason to know they were false (since a jury had just found that much the same statements were knowingly false when made by Trump on the 2020 campaign trail).
He will… lose, again. Likely for at least another $25 million.
This is what an unrepentant sexual predator looks like: Trump.
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