Trump begins his defense at E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Carroll's lawyers have warned that Trump might try to "sow chaos" if he testified, because his defiance might aid him politically.(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Jonathan Oatis)CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE GAZETTE
37% : Trump, 77, has consistently denied wrongdoing, claiming he had not known Carroll despite photos showing them together, and accusing her of making up the rape to boost sales of her memoir.
33% : Carroll, 80, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, is seeking at least $10 million from Trump over his 2019 denials that he raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
29% : The only issues for the nine jurors in the current trial is how much money Trump should pay Carroll, if any, for damaging her reputation - and how much, if any, he should pay as punishment and to dissuade him from defaming her again.
25% : Last May, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million after he denied her rape claim in October 2022.
21% : U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has presided at both trials, has ruled that the first trial established that Trump defamed and sexually abused Carroll.
21% : On Jan. 11, when another judge asked Trump if he could stick to the facts if allowed to give a closing statement in the New York attorney general's civil fraud case against him, Trump responded by attacking the judge and proclaiming the case a politically inspired sham.
17% : Kaplan could interrupt or shut down Trump's testimony, or throw him out of the courtroom, if Trump persisted in speaking out of turn, or digressed from the issues the jury will consider.
13% : -Donald Trump is expected to take the witness stand on Thursday after the writer E. Jean Carroll's lawyers finished presenting evidence to convince a Manhattan jury that Trump owes her damages for having defamed and sexually abused her.
6% : Kaplan last week warned Trump not to use the courtroom to air political grievances, after one of Carroll's lawyers complained that jurors might have overheard Trump calling the case a "witch hunt" and "con job.
4% : Carroll's lawyers also showed jurors excerpts from an October 2022 deposition, during which Trump stood by his denials of Carroll's claims and branded her "mentally sick."Before Trump's legal team began presenting his case, Kaplan denied Habba's request that Trump be declared the victor because Carroll had not proven her case.

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