Trump defamation trial live updates: On heels of Iowa victory, Trump is back on trial

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47% : Trump has said that he plans to attend the trial at some point during the week, but has not indicted when.
21% : All times Eastern:Jan 16, 8:51 AMOn heels of Iowa victory, Trump is back on trialWhen Donald Trump's federal defamation trial gets underway in lower Manhattan this morning, it will be only about 11 hours since the former president claimed victory in the Iowa caucuses.
16% : Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is.

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