Donald Trump Faces Defamation Trial Over Sexual Abuse Allegations: Accuser’s Reputation on the Line
NEW YORK—Former President Donald Trump displayed his frustration on Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial informed potential jurors that a previous jury had already determined that he sexually assaulted a columnist in the 1990s. Trump left before opening statements, where the lawyer representing the columnist accused him of using his influential platform to destroy her reputation. Fresh off a political victory in the Iowa caucuses, Trump made a brief detour to a Manhattan courtroom for the penalty phase of a civil defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll. Carroll claims that … Read more