On his Fact Social account, Trump continued to assault Carroll, calling the case a “witch hunt” and a “hoax” — whilst a jury final yr discovered he sexually abused her and defamed her by mendacity about it.
“Are you able to imagine I’ve to defend myself in opposition to this girl’s faux story?!” he complained to his followers Tuesday morning.
In Carroll’s opening argument Tuesday afternoon, Carroll’s lawyer Shawn Crowley urged jurors to impose financial damages for the hurt he precipitated Carroll together with his statements, and to discourage him from persevering with to assault her.
Crowley did not recommend a selected greenback determine for the jury to impose in opposition to the billionaire of their verdict. However she requested that the quantity be large enough to “make him cease.”
“How a lot cash will it take to make him cease?” she mentioned. “As a result of he hasn’t stopped.”
Final yr, in a separate trial, a jury in the identical downtown Manhattan federal courtroom concluded that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a division retailer within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, as she alleged. In addition they reached a verdict that he defamed her when he lied about it. In all, the jury mentioned Trump ought to pay Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
The second trial, which kicked off Tuesday, is over a two separate statements Trump made in 2019, through which he additionally known as Carroll a liar.
Whereas the present trial facilities on simply these statements, Trump has continued to disparage Carroll.
The day after the Might 9, 2023 verdict, Trump appeared on a CNN city corridor dialogue, and known as Carroll a “whack job.” He dismissed Carroll’s account of getting been violated by his fingers as “hanky panky.” He repeated his denials once more in June and July. He picked it up once more in October, and but once more within the week main as much as the trial.
“Ms. Carroll had taken on probably the most highly effective man on Earth, and he or she gained. And even that did not cease him,” Crowley instructed jurors.
On Tuesday, Trump ramped it up. He criticized Carroll within the morning and within the night, because the snow fell in Manhattan and because it was cleared from the streets. By the point Crowley gave her opening assertion, Trump’s Fact Social account had posted about Carroll 22 instances on Tuesday alone.
He was nonetheless going when the jury left the courtroom later within the day, calling the case “THIS HOAX.”
“It is time to make him pay dearly for what he is finished,” Crowley instructed jurors. “Make him pay sufficient to lastly cease him.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, in flip described Trump’s assaults as the perfect factor that ever occurred to Carroll.
“Her profession has prospered, and he or she has been thrust again into the limelight, as she at all times needed,” Habba instructed jurors in her opening assertion.
“She went on speak exhibits. She did interviews,” Habba mentioned. “She has gained extra fame, extra notoriety.”
Carroll’s profession was “dwindling” on the time she wrote the e-book that accused Trump of rape, “What Do We Want Males For? A Modest Proposal,” Habba mentioned.
Now, after profitable her final lawsuit, Carroll desires nonetheless extra “tens of millions” from Trump, Habba mentioned, and all as a result of, “some folks on-line mentioned one thing imply to her.”
Habba added, “she desires President Trump to pay her for the imply tweets.”
Carroll “would not must restore her fame,” Habba added. “She likes her new model” as an “anti-Trump determine.”
Carroll is predicted to take the stand on Wednesday.
