Former U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks his plane “Trump Force One” at Aberdeen Airport on May 1, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Donald Trump is not going to testify within the civil trial where author E. Jean Carroll accuses the previous president of rape and defamation, his attorney Joe Tacopina told a federal judge Tuesday, in accordance with NBC News.
Trump’s attendance within the trial, which began last week, was previously an open query. Tacopina had told Judge Lewis Kaplan that Trump would choose his plans “in the course of the court of the trial.”
As Trump’s lawyers defended him in federal court in Manhattan, the ex-president himself had traveled to Scotland, where he broke ground on a recent golf course on Monday.
Meanwhile, Carroll on Monday wrapped her third and final day of testimony within the trial, which centers on her allegations that Trump raped her in a Latest York City department store within the Nineteen Nineties after which defamed her when she took her story public years later.
Under lengthy cross-examination from Tacopina, Carroll responded to questions on her decision to not call the police after the alleged assault and her subsequent praise of Trump’s former reality show, “The Apprentice.”
On Tuesday, Carroll’s longtime friend Lisa Birnbach testified that Carroll had called her just “minutes” after she was allegedly assaulted in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman.
“I said, ‘Jean, he raped you. You must go to the police,'” Birnbach testified, in accordance with NBC. “She said, ‘No, no. I don’t need to go to the police.'”
Trump has denied assaulting Carroll.
One other witness, Jessica Leeds, alleged in testimony Tuesday that Trump had groped her on an airplane within the Nineteen Seventies. Trump has denied Leeds’ claim.
