Trump slams judge and E. Jean Carroll in defamation damages trial

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56% : Trump arrived at a snow-covered Manhattan federal courthouse Tuesday morning, fresh off his Monday win in the Iowa caucuses.
53% : Even if both sides wrap up testimony this week, Kaplan has given Trump until Monday to testify, should he choose.
50% : Trump's attorney Alina Habba painted a very different picture during her opening statement, telling jurors that Carroll did not suffer damages but rather leveraged her connection to Trump to sell books and gain fame.
42% : Ahead of his appearance in the courthouse Tuesday morning, Trump went on a three-part tirade on Truth Social, his social media platform, where he suggested there was no way he met Carroll several decades ago because he has been long considered an "A-List celebrity," while she was not.
38% : "Though he showed up during jury selection, Trump did not stick around for opening statements, instead hopping on a plane headed for New Hampshire, where he had a rally scheduled for Tuesday night.
30% : There is also a probability that Trump may also take the stand in his defense.
26% : ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW THE LATEST COVERAGECrowley also told jurors that the sexual assault against Carroll had already been proven in a separate trial last year and that they were there to only decide how much money Trump should be forced to pay Carroll for defaming her.
23% : On his way to New Hampshire, Trump once again turned to Truth Social to blast the proceedings, calling Kaplan a "Bully" and a "Trump Hating, Radical Left Judge.
20% : Attorneys for ex-Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll told a New York jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump not only sexually assaulted her in 1996 but also used his power as commander in chief to drag her name through the mud, attack her credibility, and unleash his supporters who relentlessly harassed her at every turn."Donald Trump was president when he made those statements, and he used the world's biggest microphone to attack Ms. Carroll, humiliate her, and to destroy her reputation," attorney Shawn Crawley told a nine-person New York jury, adding that not only did Trump ruin Carroll's life with lies but that he did nothing when others targeted her.
20% : He also took verbal jabs at Kaplan, who Trump claimed has been blinded by "his absolute hatred of Donald J. Trump (ME!).
19% : The jury could force Trump to pay Carroll more than $10 million in damages after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1995.
8% : Habba added that Carroll enjoyed the limelight and notoriety that came with linking herself to Trump and that Trump was the damaged party.

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