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The judge in the second defamation trial against Donald Trump in New York has threatened to bar the ex-president from the courtroom due to numerous disruptions.
“Mr. Trump has a right to be here. “That right could be forfeited if he interferes — and what I’m told is part of that,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, according to consistent media reports.
“And if he ignores the court’s instructions – Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to exclude you from the trial. I understand you would probably like that.”
“You just can’t control yourself.”
Trump reportedly responded, “I would love that, I would love that.” Judge Kaplan then said, “I know that because you just can’t control yourself under these circumstances, you just can’t.”
Earlier, Trump repeatedly shook his head and made derogatory comments during American author E. Jean Carroll’s testimony against him. “This is fraud,” he is said to have said, for example.
In her statement, Carroll addressed, among other things, the threats she has received from Trump supporters and the fear she has lived with every day since she made public her allegations against the former US president.
Plaintiff demands $10 million
This is Carroll’s second trial against Trump. At the end of the first, a New York jury found proven in May that Trump had assaulted Carroll in a luxury New York department store in 1996, sexually assaulted him and later defamed him. The jury then awarded the writer a compensation of five million dollars (approximately 4.65 million euros).
Before the second trial began, a judge had ruled that Trump’s other comments were defamatory. The jury now only has to decide on the amount of damages that the ex-president must pay to the woman. Carroll is asking for more than $10 million. (SDA)
Source: Blick
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