Donald Trump attends rape defamation case in New York
Former US President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organisation, in New York City on December 7, 2023.
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Carroll, 80, is seeking more than $10 million in damages in the civil trial, alleging that Trump defamed her in 2019.
Last year, another New York jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store dressing room in 1996.
Donald Trump went straight from his victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses to a New York courtroom Tuesday for the start of a defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after an earlier jury found he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
In court, the former US president did not make any statements, and he and Carroll avoided looking at each other while jurors were being selected, according to reporters allowed inside the courtroom.
