- E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation trial towards Donald Trump was delayed once more.
- The choose beforehand skipped Monday and Tuesday following a juror COVID scare and the New Hampshire major.
- Trump intends to take the witness stand, his legal professional mentioned this week.
Testimony in E. Jean Carroll’s ongoing defamation trial towards Donald Trump was postponed for the second day in a row, in accordance with a discover posted to the court docket docket.
The trial will now resume on Thursday.
US District Choose Lewis Kaplan, who’s presiding over the trial in Manhattan federal court docket, opted to not hear any testimony within the case on Monday after a juror known as in sick and mentioned he was exhibiting COVID-19 signs.
Kaplan additionally known as off the trial day on Tuesday. Trump’s legal professional Alina Habba identified that New Hampshire held its Republican presidential major election on Tuesday, and that Trump needed to marketing campaign within the state.
The trial was supposed to choose again up on Wednesday. Trump himself, Habba mentioned in court docket, needed to testify.
However on Tuesday afternoon, a docket entry mentioned the trial would proceed to be delayed till Thursday morning. A court docket spokesperson didn’t clarify the delay. The court docket’s calendar reveals that the trial will proceed on Friday as properly.
A jury final yr in the identical courtroom already discovered Trump responsible for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her by calling her a liar, as she alleged.
The continued trial issues extra defamation damages for 2 statements Trump made in 2019, whereas he was president, disparaging Carroll by calling her dishonest and insulting her look.
Carroll testified final week. Her authorized workforce is predicted to name only one remaining witness, Robbie Myers, the previous editor of Elle journal, the place Carroll labored as a columnist. After that, the protection workforce could have a flip and will name Trump to the witness stand.
It is not clear what Trump will testify about. On Reality Social and at rallies, he is continued calling Carroll a liar and claims he does not know who she is. However as a result of a jury already discovered him liable, he and his legal professionals aren’t permitted to make these arguments within the present trial.
Chris Mattei, an legal professional who represented relations of Sandy Hook capturing victims of their defamation trial towards conspiracy theorist Alex Jomes, informed Enterprise Insider it could be pointless for Trump to testify.
“There is no such thing as a midway competent lawyer who would suggest to Donald Trump that he ought to testify on this case,” Mattei, who gained a $1.5 billion verdict within the Alex Jones case, mentioned. “Until he was going to apologize and say that he had dedicated himself to by no means doing it once more. We all know that is not going to occur.”
