Donald Trump testifies in his defense in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit: 'This is not America'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Later, Trump said: "And I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly, the presidency."
51% : The trial that began last week and already featured testimony by Carroll focuses only on statements Trump made in June 2019 while he was president.
48% : Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our PodcastsSoon after the announcement by Trump attorney Alina Habba out of the presence of the jury, Trump could be heard saying aloud: "I never met the woman.
43% : Kaplan said last year's verdict means the current jury only needs to decide how much more money, if any, Trump owes Carroll for his 2019 statements.
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.
36% : Some Region schools closed due to ice, others on delay Indiana Supreme Court postpones evaluation of law that disarmed Lake County sheriffThat earlier jury awarded Carroll $5 million at a Manhattan trial Trump did not attend.
36% : "Habba told the Manhattan federal court judge that Trump was her last witness after a lunch break and that she only planned to ask him three questions to elicit that he was addressing questions in 2019 in response to Carroll's claims in a memoir that he raped her and that and that he did not intend his statements to harm Carroll.
35% : Judge Lewis A. Kaplan swiftly instructed jurors to disregard those remarks from Trump, who didn't look at the jury when he approached the witness stand, when he testified or when he stepped down.
34% : During his brief stint testifying Thursday as Carroll looked on with her lawyers, Trump answered questions from his lawyer, Alina Habba.
34% : Trump, 77, has vehemently denied the accusations for the last five years and continues to assail Carroll, 80, on the campaign trail as he pursued the presidency as the Republican frontrunner.
32% : Once the jury had left, Trump let his displeasure be known as he was almost out the door by turning his head and shaking it as he looked back toward a packed room, saying: "This is not America.
32% : "I want to know everything he's going to say," Kaplan told Habba, who said Trump would also say that he stood by a deposition in October 2022.
29% : The current judge instructed this jury to consider only what additional damages, if any, Trump must pay Carroll.
29% : U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan has instructed jurors that they must accept the findings of another New York jury that awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding that Trump sexually abused Carroll at the Bergdorf Goodman store and defamed her in October 2022 statements.
26% : She told the judge beforehand that her questions were intended to elicit that Trump stood by an October 2022 deposition in which he vehemently denied Carroll's claims and called her a "whack job" and "sick.
26% : "Government-politicsMorning headlines: Alabama is set to execute inmate with nitrogen gas, a never before used methodAssociated PressThe trial that began last week is the penalty phase of a defamation lawsuit over statements Trump made while president in 2019, when he claimed Carroll was lying to sell books and interfere politically.
25% : Trump did not attend that trial.
24% : Kaplan reminded lawyers of the limits he has placed on Trump's testimony, including that he not be permitted to testify in a way that conflicts with or argues against a $5 million jury verdict last year that found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in spring 1996 and then defamed her in 2022.
23% : "She said she also wanted to show that Trump did not intend anyone to harm Carroll.
22% : "The limits on Trump's testimony were placed on him by the judge when he decided prior to the trial that a previous jury's finding that Trump had indeed sexually abused advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in spring 1996 in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store and defamed her with remarks in 2022 must be accepted by the new jury.
20% : "She said something I considered a false accusation," Trump said from the stand.
19% : Carroll claims Trump ruined her reputation after she accused him for the first time publicly in a memoir of sexually abusing her in spring 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman store across the street from Trump Tower.
18% : Kaplan has instructed jurors to accept the findings of another jury that last May concluded Trump has sexually abused Carroll in 1996 and defamed her with statements in October 2022 similar to those he made in 2019.
14% : Government-politicsTrump White House official Peter Navarro gets 4-month sentence for defying House Jan. 6 subpoenaBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated PressKaplan had ruled weeks ago that if Trump testified, he would be barred from testifying about subjects that would conflict with last year's verdict.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.