Trump sex abuse accuser E. Jean Carroll testifies the ex-president shattered her reputation | FOX 28 Spokane

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65% : Carroll, an advice columnist and magazine writer, has said that Trump harmed her deeply.
39% : "I've paid just about as dearly as it's possible to pay," she said, referencing the damage she said rump had causedShe took the stand after a hostile encounter occurred between Trump attorney Alina Habba and Judge Lewis A. Kaplan over the judge's refusal to adjourn the trial on Thursday so Trump can attend his mother-in-law's funeral.
31% : "Now, I'm known as the liar, the fraud and the whack job."Because the first jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial concerns only how much more -- if anything -- he'll be ordered to pay her for other remarks he made in 2019 while he was president.
30% : Carroll, 80, was the first witness in a Manhattan federal court trial to determine damages, if any, that Trump owes her for remarks he made while he was president as he vehemently denied ever attacking her or knowing her.
30% : "Carroll's testimony came less than a year after she was in the same chair convincing a jury in the hopes that Trump could be held accountable in a way that would stop him from frequent verbal attacks against her as he campaigns for the presidency.
29% : Trump, who is juggling court appearances with campaign stops, sat in on jury selection Tuesday.
24% : Trump asserts that nothing ever happened between him and Carroll and that he never met her.
23% : The jury said, however, that Carroll hadn't proven her claim that Trump raped her.
22% : A jury last year already found that Trump sexually abused her and defamed her in October 2022.
21% : Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages.
18% : During Carroll's testimony, Trump grimaced, shook his head and animatedly turned to speak to his lawyer, who lobbed multiple objections seeking to prevent the jury from hearing details of her sexual assault allegations.
18% : "I'm here because Donald Trump assaulted me and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened.
15% : With Donald Trump looking on, writer E. Jean Carroll testified Wednesday that the former president shattered her reputation and continues to inspire venom against her from strangers because she claimed he sexually abused her decades ago.

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