'I don't know who the woman is,' Donald Trump erupts at E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

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56% : ""I would love it," Trump shot back.
46% : Judge Kaplan later cancelled all proceedings on Tuesday and Wednesday, without public explanation.
45% : Trump attorney Alina Habba asked the judge to allow Trump to take the stand after the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
39% : The trial against is restricted to determining damages Trump may owe Carroll, after a previous jury found him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s.
36% : The judge had previously ruled that Trump can't deny the assault from the witness stand, citing the prior verdict.
35% : An anonymous jury will determine what, if any, monetary damages Trump might owe Carroll for two statements he made denying her 2019 allegation that he had raped her in a department store changing room in the mid-1990s.
34% : "I don't know who the woman is," Trump said out of turn, as Judge Lewis Kaplan was speaking to a lawyer.
34% : Living in fear, sleeping with a gun near her bedCarroll testified last week that she has faced a barrage of attacks, including death threats, from Trump supporters.
32% : When the former president started to say he was aiming to defend himself and others when he made the statements that have already been ruled defamatory, Trump was likewise cut off, and he shook his head at length.
32% : Even during the trial, which began Jan. 18, Trump has been posting attacks against Carroll online.
30% : Carroll's legal team also presented the jury with statements in which Trump has continued to attack Carroll, calling her allegations against him "a made up, fabricated story" and "election interference."
28% : Trump confirmed to Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge) that he didn't attend the previous trial.
28% : She is never asked to be on television anymore unless it's to talk about Trump.
28% : Donald Trump tries to twist criminal charges, lawsuits in the 2024 electionMartin admitted to having sent a private text message in which she had said Carroll's narcissism had "run amok," and described Carroll as a "drug addict" where the drug was Carroll herself.
25% : The team played a segment of a video deposition that has previously been made public in which Trump confused Carroll for his second wife, Marla Maples, in a photograph.
23% : "I wasn't at the trial," he added, referring to an earlier civil trial that Trump chose not to attend, in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing Carroll.
22% : Before long, Trump was interjecting again, although the judge quickly put a stop to it.
20% : NEW YORK -- Donald Trump erupted in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday as a judge sought to restrict his testimony in a case over the costly damages he could face for defaming advice columnist E. Jean Carroll when he denied her sexual assault allegations in 2019.
20% : In response to further questioning, Trump began to say he considered Carroll's accusation to be "totally false" but was cut off and the judge struck that portion of his testimony.
19% : In May, a different civil court jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting the author, and for defaming her with his denials.
19% : When Habba cross-examined Carroll, Habba suggested the attacks could be a product of Carroll's initial accusation, rather than the denial that Trump posted on Twitter hours later, or a second denial made the next day.
19% : Already, the pair had a heated exchange after Crowley said she overheard Trump calling Carroll's accusation a "witch hunt" and "con job" within earshot of jurors.
15% : More: In E. Jean Carroll case, expert says Trump could owe $12M (or much more) for defamationJudge rejects Trump request to toss out the caseCarroll rested her side of the case earlier in the day, and Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected a request from Trump's legal team to toss out the lawsuit before it could go to the jury.
15% : Trump also called Judge Kaplan a "100% Trump Hater," mirroring attacks he leveled against another judge in a separate New York civil fraud case.
9% : Roberta Kaplan replied that some of the attacks included words and phrases that overlapped with language used Trump's denials, and said that Carroll's opportunities have been limited since she first accused Trump of rape in 2019:

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