Trump could testify as defamation trial resumes in sex abuse case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : "I would love it," Trump said.
63% : Trump is fresh off big victories in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday and the Iowa caucuses last week.
56% : If everything goes as planned, Trump could be on the witness stand before a lunch break.
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45% : Trump's attorneys have tried to show the jury through their cross-examination of witnesses that Carroll has gained a measure of fame and financial rewards through taking on Trump that outweighs the death threats and other venom slung at her through social media.
39% : Trump, 77, attended the trial two of three days last week and let the jury know -- through muttered comments and gestures like shaking his head -- that he was disgusted with the case against him.
38% : Before he testifies, Carroll's attorneys are expected to rest their case after calling a final witness whose testimony will likely last less than an hour and show snippets of a deposition that Trump underwent in October 2022.
29% : Carroll's attorneys have put some of those statements before the jury, arguing that the only way to stop Trump from defaming Carroll is to hit him in a big way financially.
27% : Trump denies ever knowing Carroll and says she made up her claims to sell a memoir.
21% : Carroll, 80, testified at a trial last year in the same courtroom that she was attacked by Trump in the dressing room of a midtown luxury department store in spring 1996.
21% : Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that last year's jury conclusions meant that a new jury chosen last week only needs to decide how much more money, if any, Trump owes Carroll for disparaging her and calling her a liar in 2019 while he was president.
20% : Thus, Kaplan has ruled, Trump will be barred from testifying about subjects that would conflict with last year's verdict.
16% : Later that day, Trump told a news conference Kaplan was a "nasty judge" and that Carroll's allegation was "a made-up, fabricated story.

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