Trump returns to court after his primary victories

The defamation suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll against donald trump It resumed this Thursday with the presence of the former US president, after his victories in the first primary votes to become a presidential candidate in the November elections.

After his resounding victory in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire in the race for Republican Party To return to the White House, the magnate returned to the courtroom being instructed by Judge Lewis Kaplan in the federal court in southern Manhattan.

The writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll, 80, is demanding $10 million from the Republican for having defamed her after the publication of a book and an article in 2019 in which she said that Trump had raped her in a department store in 1996.

Last May, a jury found the mogul guilty of sexual assault and defamation and sentenced him to pay the former Elle magazine columnist $5 million, a ruling that is being appealed.

This second trial judges statements by the then president of the United States that the writer considered had destroyed her reputation, for which she is demanding damages.

The then president, who does not stop calling Carroll a “tarada”, He then assured that “I wasn’t his type.” and that he had invented rape to “sell your new book”, titled “Why do we need men? “A modest proposal.”

The trial was interrupted on Monday after symptoms compatible with covid of a member of the jury.

On Wednesday night, on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump launched at least 37 tirades against his whistleblower. The tycoon repeats that “He had never seen her in his life.” despite the fact that at the trial, Carroll’s defense presented a photo in which both appear smiling, with their respective partners of the time.

This is one of the multiple judicial fronts that await the former president, who considers them a “Witch hunt” to hinder his long-awaited return to the White House.