Judge Bars Trump’s Lawyers from Presenting Legal Arguments in Defamation Trial Over Rape Accusations
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys have been barred from presenting legal arguments to a jury assessing damages in a defamation trial. This comes after a jury last year concluded that Trump did not rape columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the ruling on Saturday in preparation for a trial on January 16 to determine the damages in the defamation case. The verdict from the previous trial found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll, but failed to find enough evidence to conclude that he had … Read more