Donald Trump's testimony in the defamation case of writer E. Jean Carroll was short. The former president of the United States maintained his previous testimony and denied having abused the journalist.
The issue of abuse is not at stake, as Trump has already been convicted in the case. Now, the courts are assessing whether the Republican defamed the journalist by denying the crime and calling her “crazy”.
“100% yes,” Trump told lawyer Alina Habba in federal court in Manhattan when asked whether his comments in an October 2022 deposition in Carroll’s case were accurate.
Earlier on Thursday, Carroll's lawyers released excerpts from the statement, in which Trump called the Elle magazine journalist “mentally ill” and threatened to sue her.
“It’s a false accusation, it never happened, it would never happen,” Trump said in the statement.
Carroll, 80, is seeking at least $10 million in connection with Trump's speeches. In another case, the Republican was convicted on charges of sexual abuse, a case that took place in the mid-1990s in a locker room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan.
In May last year, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million after he denied committing the crime in October 2022.
Trump, 77, spent just four minutes on the witness stand after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw both trials, said he would not allow “repetitions” of the Republican's speech.
Source: CNN Brasil
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