A day after Trump's brief testimony, lawyers to present closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : He testified that he stood by his past statements "100%.""I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly, the presidency," Trump said yesterday during his brief testimony, in comments that were struck by Judge Lewis Kaplan.
49% : The facts of the case -- that Trump assaulted and defamed Carroll -- were established following a jury trial last year.
46% : I don't know who this woman is," Trump repeated yesterday while the jury was out of the courtroom.
39% : Trump, to this day, has vehemently denied the allegation -- repeating the defamatory statements over a hundred times during the course of the trial, both in and out of the courtroom, according to Carroll's lawyers.
27% : Today, a jury of nine New Yorkers will hear closing arguments and begin deliberating how much his defamatory statements should cost the former president -- less than 24 hours after Trump took to the witness stand in his own defense.
26% : The sole issue left to this jury is how much money, if any, Trump owes Carroll in damages for two defamatory statements he made while president on June 20 and 21, 2019.
26% : "Twenty-five years after sexually assaulting Ms. Carroll, Donald Trump defamed her for speaking up, and then he did it again and again.
22% : Following years of litigation and a two-week trial with testimony from both Carroll and Trump, the damages determined by the jury could be another costly expense for the former president ahead of his four criminal trials and the presidential election.
22% : They also alleged that Carroll destroyed evidence when she deleted some of the death threats she initially received -- an argument Kaplan rejected -- and they pointed out that Carroll had already been receiving threats before Trump made his two defamatory statements.
12% : "I'm here because Donald Trump assaulted me.
11% : Kaplan, who instructed the jurors to accept as true last year's finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll and then defamed her, limited Trump's testimony to answering just three questions.
9% : After Trump denied her allegations, she said she suffered a torrent of abuse and threats from Trump's followers.

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