Judge Threatens To Throw Trump Out Of Courtroom

January 17, 2024 3:29 pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse. Carroll was the first witness in a trial to determine damages, if any, that Trump owes her for remarks he made while he was president. His statements responded to a 2019 memoir in which Carroll said Trump sexually attacked her in spring 1996 in a luxury Manhattan department store’s dressing room. The trial is only about damages because a jury last May awarded Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump denies it all.