E. Jean Carroll testifies against Donald Trump in NYC defamation trial: 'He shattered my reputation'

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58% : "Trump, who came face to face with Carroll for the first time in decades at jury selection Tuesday, showed little emotion as she walked the jury through their history, at one point shaking his head.
46% : Wednesday's proceedings got off to a dramatic start when Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, made yet another request to the judge to postpone Thursday's proceedings so Trump could attend his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida without missing trial.
42% : Crowley said she heard Trump saying: "These things she's saying are false," and that Carroll "now seems to have finally gotten her memory back.
38% : The case on trial stems from the first lawsuit Carroll brought against Trump years ago, which was delayed as he argued on appeal that presidents couldn't be sued.
35% : After the break, Kaplan told Trump to "take special care to keep his voice down when conferring with counsel so that the jury does not overhear it.
31% : Trump is slated to take the stand as one of two witnesses for the defense.
28% : "I'm here because I was assaulted by Donald Trump, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened," Carroll said Wednesday.
26% : "Hey, lady, you're a fraud," read one message Carroll received this week, she told a Federal Court jury.Carroll, 80, took the witness stand on the second day of her defamation trial against Trump, who another jury determined sexually abused and defamed her last May.
22% : Asked what she thought Trump meant when he said she wasn't his "type," Carroll said, "It means I'm too ugly to assault.
19% : Trump denied assaulting Carroll because she wasn't his "type" and accused her of being a democratic operative who fabricated the incident to sell books.
19% : "Kaplan determined Trump was liable for defamation in September in light of the jury's finding at the last trial.
18% : Trump declined to attend the last trial with Carroll, when he had a chance to defend himself against the sexual abuse allegations.
15% : The abuse aimed at E. Jean Carroll after Donald Trump called her a liar continued long after he left the White House and "shattered" her reputation, the advice columnist testified Wednesday in a packed Manhattan courtroom as the former president glared at her from the audience.
9% : The jury selected to decide the case on trial will determine how much Trump owes Carroll for defamatory statements he made in June 2019 after she first accused him of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the 1990s -- the basis of the first lawsuit she filed against Trump when he was still president.

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