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Edward Blum <elonx@protonmail.com> wrote in
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That bitch is too ugly to fuck.

NEW YORK — Hours after trouncing his rivals in the Iowa caucuses, Donald
Trump wasn’t out fundraising or turning his attention to next week’s New Hampshire primary. Instead, he was back in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday morning, where for hours he sat silently, observing the selection of a
jury that will determine how much money he should pay a rape accuser he defamed.

It was an unusual turn for someone who could have been taking a victory
lap as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination, but not for Trump,
who is facing a demanding legal calendar that took him from a civil fraud
trial that ended last week to the defamation trial that began Tuesday.

It is Trump’s second trial against the writer E. Jean Carroll, who won her first case against the former president last year when a jury found him
liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and then defaming her in
2022. That jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.

The current trial concerns separate comments that Trump made about Carroll
in 2019, while Trump was president. The jury’s job is to determine not
whether Trump defamed Carroll in those comments — U.S. District Judge
Lewis Kaplan has already ruled that he did — but simply how much Trump
should pay her in damages. (Any award would come on top of the $5 million awarded in the 2023 trial.)

Trump said in 2019 that Carroll, who had publicly claimed he raped her in
the dressing room of a luxury department store decades earlier, had
falsely accused him and suggested she was motivated by money. “I’ve never
met this person in my life,” he said at the time. “She is trying to sell a
new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/16/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation- trial-begins-00135969

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