Trump’s lawyers have challenged the judgment, which included a $65 million punitive award, saying there was a ‘strong probability’ it will be reduced or eliminated on appeal.
‘He simply asks the Court to ‘trust me’ and offers, in a case with an $83.3 million judgment against him, the court filing equivalent of a paper napkin; signed by the least trustworthy of borrowers.’
A jury last year agreed that it happened and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation.
‘Trump is really only there as a provocateur.’
‘It’s a disgrace, frankly, what’s happening,’ Trump told reporters, repeating his claim that author E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation was ‘a made-up, fabricated story.’
The testimony came on the third day of a trial in Manhattan federal court that will determine what damages, if any, Trump owes.
A judge has implemented strict rules for what Trump can and cannot say if he speaks at trial.
A jury to be chosen Tuesday prior to opening statements will hear evidence pertaining to $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in punitive damages.
E. Jean Carroll won a $5 million award last May from a jury that concluded Trump sexually abused her in 1996.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has set a Jan. 15 date for a jury to decide damages in a long-delayed lawsuit brought by the writer, E. Jean Carroll.
