Trump takes the witness stand against sex accuser E. Jean Carroll

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52% : Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to his supporters outside a Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024Trump's attorney Alina Habba, who has been acting for him in the case, leaves Trump Tower in New YorkThe case in New York comes just days after Trump won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, taking home 54.3% of support, while his next closest rival, Nikki Haley, took 43.3% - despite hoping to come within single digits of the former president.
49% : Trump's trial resumes on Thursday, two days after the Republican primaries in New HampshireIn this courtroom sketch, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, Donald Trump and his attorney watch video of his deposition, presented prior to the defense resting, in Federal Court in New YorkFormer Elle Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers testifies on E. Jean Carroll behalf during the second civil trial where Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of attacking her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024That came after Carroll's lawyers called their final witness, Robbie Myers, who was editor-in-chief of Elle magazine from 2000 to 2017.
40% : Trump, 77, has consistently denied wrongdoing, claiming he did not know Carroll, and accusing her of making up the allegation to boost sales of her memoir.
40% : Only in America!'Trump said in a follow-up post: 'THIS IS A WITCH HUNT CONCEIVED AND FUNDED BY POLITICAL OPERATIVES FOR PURPOSES OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!'
40% : Carroll's lawyers have warned that Trump might try to 'sow chaos' if he testified, because his defiance might aid him politically.
31% : Before Trump took the stand Habba called another witness, Carol Martin, a retired television journalist and friend of Carroll.
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.
26% : Before Thursday's proceedings began Trump said, in a post on his Truth Social social media network, that he was heading to New York City for 'a trial based on false accusations from perhaps decades ago -
25% : In one snippet played to jurors Trump misidentified an image of Carroll as his ex-wife Marla Maples.
25% : Last May, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million after he denied her rape claim in October 2022.
24% : Martin acknowledged that Carroll had assured her she did not have any major security concerns as the public learned about her claims about Trump.
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22% : READ MORE: Trump calls for CNN Anderson Copper tape to be shown in courtFormer president Donald Trump dramatically took the witness stand today and told a court he had never met E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accuses him of sexually attacking her in a department store in the 1990s.
22% : According to Carroll, 80, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, Trump attacked her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room.
20% : As he was set to give evidence on the stand in a civil trial in Manhattan Trump turned to his lawyer Alina Habba and said loudly: 'I never met this woman.'Trump has already been found liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a previous civil trial last year, which he did not attend.
20% : Trump is trying to convince a civil jury that he should not have to pay Carroll anything.
19% : She is now seeking at least $10 million in damages for defamation after Trump continued to publicly deny her allegations.
19% : Kaplan, who has presided at both trials, has ruled that the first trial established that Trump defamed and sexually abused Carroll.
17% : Carroll's attorneys also showing jurors clips of Trump on the campaign trail saying Carroll had concocted a 'made up fabricated story' about him.
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.
15% : There were also clips from a filmed 2022 deposition in which Trump called her "a liar and a very sick person.
14% : Former U.S. President Donald Trump watches footage of himself giving a video deposition during the second civil trial where Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024E. Jean Carroll walks outside Manhattan Federal Court, for the second civil trial with Donald Trump in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024Earlier, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied a request by Habba to dismiss the case after the lawyer argued Carroll had not proven it.
8% : US District Judge Lewis 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.'The judge has spent 29 years on the federal bench.
2% : Trump Attorney Alina Habba (C) outside the Trump Tower before E. Jean Carroll's defamation case in New York on January 25, 2024E. Jean Carroll outside Manhattan Federal Court where she arrived before Donald Trump on January 25, 2024On January 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.

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