Trump defamation trial postponed due to juror’s illness

The defamation trial against the former president of U.S donald trump (2017-2021) was postponed this Monday to a new date because one of the nine jurors is ill.

Both the writer E. Jean Carroll like the former president were present in the room when the judge Lewis Kaplan canceled today’s session.

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In addition, today all jurors will undergo tests of COVID-19from Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habbasaid he was in contact with his parents three days ago and they later tested positive for coronavirus.

Habba, who said he had a fever and was not wearing a mask, tested negative this morning.

Trump wants to testify

The lawyer told the judge that the former president and Republican primary candidate wants to testify at the trial, but will not be able to appear in court on Tuesday because it is the day of the Republican primaries. New Hampshirea key date in the electoral process.

“I’m not going to decide (whether he can testify on Wednesday) at this point.“, replied Kaplan, who also did not make it clear whether the hearings would resume tomorrow.

In turn, Carroll’s lawyer noted that she does not want to prolong the trial any longer and would like it to end on Tuesday.

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In this trial donald trump He will have to respond to Carroll’s defamation accusations when he claimed, in 2019, that he did not know the writer, and that her confession – made that same year – that the former president had sexually abused her in the 1990s was false.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Trump sat in the dock where he could hear Carroll’s testimony.

Last May, a jury convicted Trump of sexual abuse, defamation of the writer and payment of 5 million dollars. In this new trial, the jury will have to decide whether Trump damaged the writer’s reputation with his 2019 statements and, if so, the subsequent financial sanctions.

Carroll is asking for $10 million in compensation. This amount would be less than the US$ 12.1 million that Carroll could cost to restore his good name and credibility, according to testimony from an expert hired by the writer’s legal team.

In previous sessions, Carroll’s legal team maintained that following the then-president’s comments, the journalist lost her credibility as a columnist – for years she gave advice to Elle magazine readers – as well as her versatility, since now the media only contacts her to talk about Trump.

Furthermore, she became hostile to the Republican’s followers. Carroll noted that on the day Trump denied the allegations, she received emails threatening her with death, but deleted them because she was “your first instinct”, so he was unable to provide evidence.

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For its part, Trump’s defense maintains that when Carroll decided to make public Trump’s sexual harassment, her career and popularity as a columnist and writer were already in crisis, and precisely she took off again as a result of her accusations against Trump, which provided your more followers and fame.

And regarding the harassment she has received on social media, the lawyers are trying to demonstrate that this occurred because she accused Trump of rape in the first instance and not because of Trump’s response.

To do this, they rely on the theory that Carroll received messages of this type in the five hours that passed between the publication of the writer’s statements and the then president’s response.

Source: Elcomercio

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