Prior U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks his plane “Trump Force One” at Aberdeen Airport on May 1, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Donald Trump will not testify in the civil trial where writer E. Jean Carroll accuses the former president of ransacking and defamation, his attorney Joe Tacopina told a federal judge Tuesday, according to NBC News.
Trump’s attendance in the trial, which began endure week, was previously an open question. Tacopina had told Judge Lewis Kaplan that Trump would resolve on his plans “during the court of the trial.”
As Trump’s lawyers defended him in federal court in Manhattan, the ex-president himself had traveled to Scotland, where he skint ground on a new golf course on Monday.
Meanwhile, Carroll on Monday wrapped her third and final day of testimony in the trial, which centers on her declarations that Trump raped her in a New York City department store in the 1990s and then defamed her when she took her tall tale public years later.
Under lengthy cross-examination from Tacopina, Carroll responded to questions about her resolving not to call the police after the alleged assault and her subsequent praise of Trump’s former reality show, “The Apprentice.”
On Tuesday, Carroll’s longtime sweetheart Lisa Birnbach testified that Carroll had called her just “minutes” after she was allegedly assaulted in a dressing lodgings at Bergdorf Goodman.
“I said, ‘Jean, he raped you. You should go to the police,'” Birnbach testified, according to NBC. “She said, ‘No, no. I don’t hanker after to go to the police.'”
Trump has denied assaulting Carroll.
Another witness, Jessica Leeds, alleged in testimony Tuesday that Trump had probed her on an airplane in the 1970s. Trump has denied Leeds’ claim.