Trump, Carroll to wrap up defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump, 77, accused Carroll of making up the encounter to boost sales of her memoir.
29% : Trump, a Republican, is seeking to retake the White House in the November election in a likely showdown against Democrat Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.
25% : The race is expected to be close even though Trump faces 91 felony counts in four separate criminal indictments, including two cases accusing him of trying to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss.
24% : Trump on Thursday spent only four minutes defending himself on the witness stand, after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan forbade him and his lawyers from revisiting issues that the first trial had settled.
21% : Because that verdict is binding for the current trial, the seven-man, two-woman jury need decide only how much Trump owes Carroll for harming her reputation, and whether to impose punitive damages to keep Trump from defaming her again.
20% : Trump has tried to make his legal travails a campaign asset, claiming he is a victim of biased prosecutors, plaintiffs like Carroll, and an unfair judicial system.
18% : "She said those appearances dried up after Trump called her a liar, and that his denials led her to be bombarded with online death threats and other attacks that have yet to stop.
14% : The writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Donald Trump is likely headed for a jury on Friday, after lawyers for both sides offer final arguments on how much Trump damaged Carroll's reputation by denying he raped her.Carroll, 80, is seeking at least $10 million over Trump's June 2019 denials, when he was president, that he had raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
11% : Lawyers for Trump have said it was Carroll's accusations and not Trump's denials that prompted the attacks, saying the attacks began even before the former president said anything.
5% : But another jury last May ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million over a similar denial in October 2022, finding that Trump had defamed and sexually abused her.

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