Trump testifies in Carroll defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump was the last witness, and closing arguments are set for today.
46% : Kaplan told Trump he wasn't allowed to interrupt the proceedings.
45% : The friend, retired TV journalist Carol Martin, was among two people the writer told about her encounter with Trump shortly after it happened, according to testimony at the first trial.
41% : While Trump has said a lot about her to the court of public opinion, Thursday marked the first time he has directly addressed a jury about her claims.
41% : Trump told jurors Thursday that he stood by that deposition, "100%.
41% : Trump's attorneys have tried to show the jury through their cross-examination of various witnesses that by taking on Trump, Carroll has gained a measure of fame and financial rewards that outweigh the threats and other venom slung at her through social media.
40% : But Trump nudged past those limits.
39% : "After Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told jurors to disregard those remarks, Trump rolled his eyes as he stepped down from the witness stand.
38% : But jurors also heard parts of a 2022 deposition -- a term for out-of-court questioning under oath -- in which Trump vehemently denied that he had any sexual encounter with Carroll or even knew her, calling her "sick" and a "whack job."
34% : Even before taking the stand, Trump pushed at those limitations as the judge and lawyers for both sides discussed what he could be asked.
31% : Besides Trump, his defense called only one other witness, a friend of Carroll's.
24% : But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge's rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: "This is not America."Testifying in his own defense in the defamation trial, Trump didn't look at the jury during his short, heavily negotiated stint on the witness stand.
22% : Trump lawyer Alina Habba confronted Martin on Tuesday with text messages in which she called Carroll a "narcissist" who seemed to be reveling in the attention she got from accusing and suing Trump.
20% : Because of the prior jury's findings, Kaplan said Trump now couldn't offer any testimony "disputing or attempting to undermine" the sexual abuse allegations.
18% : "Trump didn't attend a related trial last spring, when a different jury found that he did sexually abuse Carroll and that some of his comments were defamatory, awarding her $5 million.
17% : The longtime advice columnist alleges that Trump attacked her in 1996, then defamed her by calling her a liar when she went public with her story in a 2019 memoir.
17% : Carroll, 80, claims Trump, 77, ruined her reputation after she publicly aired her account of a chance meeting that spiraled into a sexual assault in spring 1996.

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