Closing arguments to begin in E. Jean Carroll's damages trial against Donald Trump

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58% : "Trump, who took the stand Thursday for the second time since his presidential re-election campaign began, plans to attend the proceedings, his campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, told NBC News.
58% : Trump didn't attend last year's trial and backed out of testifying, but he has been in court almost every day of the current trial.
50% : Nevertheless, asked by his attorney Alina Habba whether he'd made the comments to defend himself, Trump said: "Yes.
39% : On Monday, when the case was delayed for Covid-related reasons, Trump posted about Carroll around three dozen times on his Truth Social website.
36% : Kaplan used that verdict to find Trump liable in the current case, which centers on similar remarks he made about her while he was president in 2019.
33% : Closing arguments to begin in E. Jean Carroll's damages trial against Donald TrumpAdam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian and Vaughn HillyardJanuary 26, 2024 at 12:30 PMClosing arguments are set to begin Friday morning in E. Jean Carroll's damages trial against Donald Trump, in which the writer is expected to seek well over $10 million for the former president's repeatedly defaming her by calling her sexual abuse allegations against him a "con job.
33% : Trump delivered dramatic but brief testimony, saying he lashed out at Carroll after she went public with her allegations in 2019 because he wanted "to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency."
32% : Kaplan had placed strict limits on what Trump could say on the stand because he has already been found liable for defaming Carroll and couldn't say otherwise.
19% : A different jury found Trump liable last year for sexually abusing Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s and for defaming her by calling her a "wack job" and her claims a hoax.
16% : They're also likely to seek a very large amount in punitive damages, arguing a hefty judgment is needed to persuade Trump to stop trashing her, as he has frequently done since the trial began on Jan 16.
14% : Trump's team has argued that Carroll should get nothing or at most a "nominal" amount in damages because Trump isn't to blame for the online vitriol and death threats that followed his posts and mockery of Carroll.
6% : Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in compensatory damages for "injury to her reputation, humiliation and mental anguish in her public and private life," in addition to an unspecified amount in punitive damages to "punish Trump for acting maliciously and to deter Trump and others" from continuing to defame her.

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