Donald Trump back in court for E. Jean Carroll defamation case

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49% : Donald Trump is expected to be in court today for opening arguments in the defamation case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
49% : It relates to statements Trump made in 2019 when she first went public with her account.
43% : Judge Kaplan has allowed Trump to speak at the trial but warned him to stick to a narrow range of subjects.
42% : After a chance meeting at Bergdorf's, Carroll claims Trump offered to buy her lingerie but then followed her into the changing room.
38% : In a ruling, the judge said: 'Mr Trump is precluded from offering any testimony, evidence, or argument suggesting or implying that he did not sexually assault Ms Carroll, that she fabricated her account of the assault, or that she had any motive to do so'.That may prove tricky if the experience of another court the previous week was anything to go by.Testifying at his fraud trial in New York, Trump was given a chance to speak by the judge but refused to agree to stay on topic, instead going on a five minute rant about a wide range of subjects.
37% : This is the day after his Iowa caucus victoryThe facts of the case are not in dispute, meaning that the jury will just have to decide how much Trump will have to pay up.
37% : Trump's lawyer Alina Habba said he was 'well aware' of the court's rules and said that she hoped it would not be a 'kangaroo court of a third-world country'.Trump has called for the US to 'come together' and thanked all of his family after he decimated the rest of the Republican field in the Iowa caucus Monday nightIn a fiery post to Trump's social media app Truth Social after the verdict, he wrote in all caps, 'I HAVE ABSOLUTELY
35% : It is actually the second of two civil cases that Carroll, 80, filed against Trump.
28% : Trump is expected to be present for opening arguments in the defamation case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
22% : In her complaint, Carroll described the attack by Trump in stark detail.
20% : Donald Trump in 1987 with his first wife, Ivana, rape accuser E. Jean Carroll and Carroll's then-husbandA jury found last year that he sexually assaulted her at Bergdorf's, a luxury department store in Manhattan in 1996 after they had a chance meeting outside.
19% : The case is being overseen by Judge Lewis Kaplan who Trump has insulted online as 'terrible, biased and irrationally angry'.
18% : The complaint states: 'Trump lunged at Carroll, pushing her against the wall, bumping her head quite badly, and putting his mouth on her lips.
15% : Following the publication of the article in New York magazine, Trump called Carroll a liar and said she made up the story to boost sales of her book.
12% : Carroll, 80, is now seeking $10million from Trump for calling her claims a 'false accusation' in 2019 while he was still in officeFresh from his landslide Iowa victory, Donald Trump is expected in court in New York today where lawyers for a woman who claims he raped her will demand $10million in damages for calling her a liar.

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