UPDATE VERDICT HAS BEEN REACHED. The federal jury agreed that Donald Trump will have to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for allegedly defaming her when he was president and thereafter.
Things are heating up in Donald Trump's trial against E. Jean Carroll who claims the former president defamed her, and now she wants millions out of him in the lawsuit against him. Trump walked out during the closing argument by Carroll's attorney, and the judge threatened to throw Trump's lawyer in 'lockup' aka jail. The Hill reported on this, saying the following in a political news article:
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the federal judge overseeing former President Trump’s defamation trial brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, threatened to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail after she interrupted him during Friday’s proceedings. “You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now sit down,” Kaplan told Habba during closing arguments.
The moment came minutes after Friday’s proceedings began and took place just before the jury entered the room for the day. The parties were arguing over a slide Trump’s team wanted to show as part of their presentation that Carroll did not prove a causal link between Trump’s denials he sexually assaulted the columnist and the emotional and reputational harms she says she suffered.
