Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Carroll, an advice columnist and magazine writer, has said that Trump harmed her deeply.
48% : Crowley suggested that if Carroll's lawyers could hear Trump from where they were sitting, about 12 feet (3.7 meters) from him, jurors might've been able to hear him too.
40% : Earlier, without the jury in the courtroom, Trump could be seen slamming his hand on the defense table and uttering the word, "man," when the judge again refused his lawyer's request that the trial be suspended on Thursday so he could attend his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida.
32% : This defamation trial is only to set a penalty, if any, for comments Trump made about Carroll while he was president.
32% : "Carroll's testimony came nine months after she was in the same chair convincing a jury in the hopes that Trump could be held accountable in a way that would stop him from frequent verbal attacks against her as he campaigns for the presidency.
31% : "Now, I'm known as the liar, the fraud and the whack job."Because the first jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial concerns only how much more -- if anything -- he'll be ordered to pay her for other remarks he made in 2019 while he was president.
30% : Carroll, 80, was the first witness in a Manhattan federal court trial to determine damages, if any, that Trump owes her for remarks he made while he was president in June 2019 as he vehemently denied ever attacking her or knowing her.
29% : Trump, who is juggling court appearances with campaign stops, sat in on jury selection Tuesday.
25% : She took the stand after a hostile encounter between Habba and Kaplan -- culminating in Trump's desk slam -- - over the judge's refusal to adjourn the trial on Thursday so Trump could attend the funeral for former first lady Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs, who died last week.
24% : "I've paid just about as dearly as it's possible to pay," Carroll said, referencing the damage she said Trump had caused to her reputation.
24% : Trump asserts that nothing ever happened between him and Carroll and that he never met her.
23% : The jury said, however, that Carroll hadn't proven her claim that Trump raped her.
21% : A jury last year already found that Trump sexually abused her in 1996 and defamed her when he made a round of denials in October 2022.
21% : Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages.
18% : "I'm here because Donald Trump assaulted me and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened.

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