What Happens When Trump Isn't Allowed to Lie

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Outside the state courtroom, there were barricades set up for TV-camera crews, which Trump would go outside and address during every break.
47% : "Do you stand by the testimony in your deposition?""One-hundred percent yes," Trump said.
45% : "This... is ... not ... America."Out in America -- or, at least, the version of the country that exists in his imagination -- Donald Trump is the all but certain Republican presidential nominee, a politician who can say anything he wants, about anyone he wants, without regard for the consequences.
43% : For the four years Donald Trump was president, a sizable percentage of the voting public indulged in the fantasy that, one day, he might be grilled on the witness stand in a court of law.
40% : Trump and his lawyers have shown a willingness to push the bounds of evidentiary rules and to playact like they're on Law & Order in more freewheeling venues, like the nearby state courthouse where the comparatively cheerful Judge Arthur Engeron recently concluded a civil fraud trial.
40% : He won't even allow Trump and his retinue to carry phones into his court.
40% : "No," Trump replied.
37% : The underlying question of what happened to Carroll back in the 1990s was the subject of another civil trial held last year, where a jury found that it was more likely than not Trump did sexually assault her in a department-store dressing room, as she claimed in her article and an accompanying book.
34% : The judge even seems to have done something many figured would be impossible, intimidating Trump himself.
34% : In September, Kaplan ruled that the earlier verdict would be accepted for the purposes of the second trial, too, meaning that Trump would not be permitted to argue otherwise in court.
34% : Trump moaned at the defense table, as he listened to the clinical description.
33% : "This is not America," Trump said aloud as he stalked out of the courtroom after spending less than five minutes on the stand.
33% : Trump seemed not to understand -- or at least to accept -- the legal strictures the judge had placed on his testimony.
30% : The first, Carol Martin, is a longtime friend of Carroll's, one of two witnesses who testified at the first trial that Carroll had confided that Trump had attacked her shortly after the incident.
28% : After lunch, before the jury returned, Kaplan presided over a short hearing at which he sternly reiterated his previous rulings as to what Trump could and could not contest on the stand, including the jury's finding that he had sexually abused Carroll by forcibly "inserting his fingers into her vagina.
27% : "This woman is sick," he said, calling her a "wack job" who had made up the story "out of the cold air."As the video played, Trump stared at the monitor, his eyelids half-closed, and appeared to yawn.
26% : Late on Wednesday, the day before his testimony, Trump published a post on his platform Truth Social calling the judge "extraordinarily hostile" and a "100% Trump hater."
26% : The plaintiffs also played a video of an earlier deposition in which Trump said he had had "a lot of hoaxes played on me," saying he could cite a "whole list."
25% : Prior to Trump's testimony, Carroll's legal team entered a series of additional defiant statements Trump has made during the trial into evidence.
24% : What would it look like if Trump was put under oath and compelled to tell the whole truth about just one of his many offenses?
24% : This second jury is only supposed to consider how much Trump should pay Carroll for defaming her in a series of statements to the press in which he suggested that she was lying, she was politically and financially motivated, and darkly hinted she would "pay dearly" for making "such false accusations."
23% : Trump's lead attorney, Alina Habba, presented Martin with text messages in which she criticized what she described as Carroll's "narcissism" and told others that she thought her friend was "loving the adulation" that came with suing Trump.
23% : Meanwhile Trump was growing agitated, barking at his lawyer.
22% : Thursday, at a civil defamation trial in Manhattan federal court, Trump took the witness stand, intending to defend himself against a rape accusation.
20% : Carroll's lawyers have presented evidence that after Trump made his statements, his followers picked up his cues and unleashed a torrent of abuse on his accuser, even threatening to rape and kill her.
10% : For weeks, Trump had been teasing the press and the public about his eagerness to take the stand and face a jury of nine anonymous citizens who are considering how much he should pay in damages to E. Jean Carroll, a writer that he defamed after New York published her first-person account of allegedly being raped by Trump back in the 1990s.

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