Mar 08 Trump attorneys post $92 million bond to support jury award to E. Jean Carroll in defamation suit By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has secured a bond sufficient to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to writer E. Jean Carroll during a January defamation trial. Continue reading
Mar 07 Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press The federal judge who oversaw a defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s is refusing to relieve the ex-president from the verdict's financial pinch. Continue reading
Feb 29 Writer E. Jean Carroll's lawyers urge judge to reject Trump's request to postpone $83.3 million jury award By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Attorneys wrote in a Manhattan federal court filing Thursday that Trump was offering the equivalent of a paper napkin to promise he'd pay the award to the 80-year-old longtime advice columnist. Continue reading
Jan 26 Trump ordered to pay additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case By Jake Offenhartz, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. Continue reading
Jan 26 Trump walks out of court during closing arguments of E. Jean Carroll defamation trial By Larry Neumeister, Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan interrupted the closing argument that the lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, was making on behalf of writer E. Jean Carroll to note for the record that Trump "just rose and walked out of the courtroom."… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch 4:43 What happened in court when Trump took the stand in federal defamation case By William Brangham, Ali Schmitz Donald Trump took the stand in a New York City courtroom on Thursday as part of the defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll. In an earlier trial, Trump was found guilty of sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s… Continue watching
Jan 25 Trump testifies in his defense in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit By Jennifer Peltz, Larry Neumeister, Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press Trump testified for just three minutes Thursday in a New York defamation trial to determine how much he might owe the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll for disparaging her as a liar after she publicly accused him of a decades-old… Continue reading
Jan 22 Possible Trump testimony in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial postponed due to juror illness By Jennifer Peltz, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Trump had been expected to testify as early as Monday about why he has spoken disparagingly about Carroll since she revealed her claims in a 2019 memoir. One of the jurors reported feeling ill and was told to go home… Continue reading
Jan 22 Trump may take the witness stand in sex abuse defamation trial By Jennifer Peltz, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press A different jury found last year that former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll. U.S. District Judge Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has ruled that if Trump takes the stand now, he won't be allowed to say she… Continue reading
Jan 19 Trump's attorney renews call for mistrial in defamation case brought by writer in sexual abuse case By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Attorney Alina Habba told a judge in a letter Friday that writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case was spoiled when Carroll deleted social media messages containing death threats. Continue reading