E. Jean Carroll to testify at damages trial with Donald Trump expected to be in attendance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Fresh off his victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday, Trump had been in court for jury selection Tuesday but left before opening statements to attend a campaign rally in New Hampshire.
41% : Trump, 77, was found liable last year for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her after he left the White House in a separate civil trial and was hit with a $5 million verdict, which he's appealing.
37% : U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan used that verdict to find Trump liable for the remarks he made while he was president, as well, so the jury in the current case will be deciding only what amount of damages to award her.
36% : Trump "didn't just deny the assault" when Carroll broke her silence in a 2019 book -- "he went much, much further," Crowley said.
34% : Crowley told the jurors that Trump had continued his attacks since the last verdict, including posting comments to his Truth Social platform while he was in court Tuesday.
28% : "Ms. Carroll will tell you that there has not been a day that's gone by since Donald Trump first defamed her that she has not been afraid.
21% : Carroll, 80, will tell the New York federal court jury in the defamation case how her life turned upside down after Trump, then the president, repeatedly slammed her publicly after she first came forward in 2019 with allegations that he sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in a Manhattan department store in 1996.
21% : ""Donald Trump was president when he made those statements, and he used the world's biggest microphone to attack Ms. Carroll, to humiliate her and to destroy her reputation," she said.
18% : Stephanie Keith / Getty ImagesTestimony will begin Wednesday in E. Jean Carroll's damages trial against Donald Trump, with the writer on the witness stand and the former president, who was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, expected to be in the courtroom.

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