Former President Trump’s Legal Arguments Denied in Defamation Trial Following Jury’s Verdict on Rape Allegations
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have been barred from presenting legal arguments to a jury in a defamation trial. The judge’s decision comes after a jury concluded last year that Trump did not rape a columnist in the mid-1990s but sexually abused her. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the ruling ahead of the trial, which is set to determine the amount of damages Trump should pay for defamation. The jury had determined that Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll, but did not find enough evidence to support her claim … Read more