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☆ E. Jean Carroll is taking Trump to trial over defamation and sexual abuse. Again. Wait, what?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump will once again go to trial over his sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll. Here's what to expect from the second Carroll trial:AdvertisementWhy is Trump going to trial again for Carroll's allegations, anyway? He ruled that Trump doesn't get a re-do on Carroll's sexual abuse claims. Kaplan also ruled that it was fine for Carroll's lawyers to say that Trump "raped" Carroll. At a press conference following closing arguments in a different Trump trial, the former president told journalists he would attend the Carroll trial.

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☆ Trump, DeSantis go head-to-head at key conservative group summits in DC
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, September 8, 2023. Ron DeSantis, is also scheduled to speak at the two summits hosted by the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee and the Family Research Council. Casey DeSantis is also taking a lead role in "Mamas for DeSantis," a campaign initiative aimed at mothers. And yet, national polls of the Republican primary field give Trump a commanding lead among both men and women. Just 14% of women in the same group picked DeSantis, while 5% chose former United Nations Amb.

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☆ Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and there's no need for a 2nd jury to say that, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An earlier jury already settled that Trump raped Carroll, a judge ruled. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that the question of whether Trump raped Carroll was settled in a separate trial earlier this year. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Jury finds Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean CarrollThat trial was for Carroll's second lawsuit against Trump. The jury used the New York state penal law standard to determine whether Trump "raped" or "sexually abused" Carroll. Trump is appealing the verdict in the earlier Carroll trial and has argued that a second trial would be unfairly duplicative.

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☆ Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, and there's no need for a 2nd jury to waste time on that, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Trump's social media attacks against prosecutors could backfire on his attempts to delay his criminal trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge set Trump's election interference trial in Washington, DC, for March 4, 2024. Prosecutors want a trial quickly because Trump's social media attacks could influence the jury pool. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesperson for the New York state court system, told Insider that Trump's trial date in Manhattan has not been changed. Judges have sought to reign in Trump's social media posts in other ways. Lauro has previously said he wants the case trial in West Virginia, which legal experts say is unlikely to happen.

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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on August 5, 2023 shows special counsel Jack Smith in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2023 and former US President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday proposed a Jan. 2 start date for former President Donald Trump's trial on charges of attempting to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Smith in a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court argued that that trial date would "vindicate the public's strong interest in a speedy trial." That same day, Trump is scheduled to stand trial in Manhattan federal court for a civil lawsuit filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump did not appear in court in the recent trial for a similar lawsuit also brought by Carroll.

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☆ Trump just pleaded not guilty to the 37-count indictment against him. Here's what happens next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Taylor Berman | Insider Staff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump pleaded not guilty to his 37-count indictment over mishandling classified documents. Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor overseeing the case, promised he'd seek a "speedy trial" to bring Trump to justice. Once the parties have a good grasp on the material, Cannon will set a schedule for a motion to dismiss. Trump may not need to show up in court again until a trialIf the case does indeed go to trial, Trump will likely have to show up. Judge Juan Merchan, the New York state judge overseeing Trump's other case, has made clear he expects Trump to appear in person.

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☆ Trump fights to keep the word 'rape' in E. Jean Carroll's remaining defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Carroll wants to amend her remaining lawsuit by removing the word 'rape' and adding new alleged defamations. Trump is now fighting these amendments, and demands the word 'rape' stay in the lawsuit. His lawyers plan to argue that since a jury has now rejected her rape claim, Trump rightfully called her a liar. Carroll's proposed amended complaint "substitutes every reference of the word 'rape' and replaces it with 'sexual assault,'" Trump attorney Alina Habba writes in the filing, addressed to US District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the presiding judge for Carroll's two defamation suits. In that case, a federal jury in Manhattan found Trump indeed defamed and sexually abused Carroll and approved $5 million in damages.

Former US president Donald Trump continues to deny knowing E. Jean Carroll. A Manhattan jury found Trump did — and likely sexually abused her. Trump's team released a long statement in response to the verdict, also calling the verdict a "witch-hunt of President Trump." While the jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll after two weeks of trial testimony and arguments, they did not find that Carroll met the burden of proof in showing that he raped her. Jurors, however, were shown a photo of Trump and Carroll chatting with their spouses at a gala in 1987, several years before the Bergdorf Goodman incident.

☆ Trump Was Found Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is found liable for sexual abuseA Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages in a civil trial. After three hours of deliberations, the jury unanimously found that the “preponderance of the evidence” — a lower threshold than that in criminal cases — supported Carroll’s accusation that Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid 1990s. It also held the former president liable for defaming Carroll, when he called her case “a Hoax and a lie.” But the jury did not find that Carroll had proved that Trump had raped her, as she has long claimed. On his Truth Social website, Trump said: “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. This verdict is a disgrace — a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!” He vowed to appeal.

The scheduled April 25 trial relates to Trump's alleged rape of Carroll in late 1995 or early 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. In his Oct. 12 post, Trump said he did not know Carroll, that she made up the rape claim to promote her memoir, and that the claim was a "hoax," "lie," "con job" and "complete scam." Trump said his post amounted to commentary about Carroll's earlier lawsuit and his defenses, and therefore was protected. But the judge said Trump's post was neither a "report of any judicial proceeding" nor a "fair and true report" of such a proceeding that would justify immunity. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No 22-10016.

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