Former President of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) will return to the dock this Tuesday in a New York court, where a jury will have to decide how much money he must pay the writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation .
The appointment, which Trump himself plans to attend in person, is the second trial the Republican has faced in the same city in the last week.
The final negotiations were concluded last Thursday in civil proceedings for fraud against his family business, The former president faces a fine of up to $370 million and a lifetime ban from New York state real estate.
This Tuesday, Trump will have to respond to very different allegations: He defamed Carroll when he claimed in 2019 that he did not know the writer and that her confession that the former president had sexually abused her in the 1990s was false.
Carroll is seeking $10 million in compensation.
A jury last May already condemned Trump for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer, but not for rape. Since then, the former president has continued to defend that he doesn't know her and cast doubt on her version of events.
Last Thursday, after briefly participating in the closing arguments of his fraud trial and reiterating his position that all cases against him were part of a political campaign, Trump declared his intention to personally attend his defamation trial. , which he did not do during the abuse case.
His announcement sparked a legal battle between Carroll's lawyers, who don't want the trial to become a circus, and Trump's.
In a decision issued last Tuesday, the judge who will preside over the trial stated: Lewis Kaplan, ruled that Trump could not deny the abuse allegations made against him. She also ruled that Carroll does not have to prove that Trump defamed her because her allegations are virtually the same as those in the previous trial.
“This trial will not be a repeat of the previous one,” the decision said.
But Carroll's lawyers don't trust Trump to play by the rules and asked Kaplan on Friday to limit the former president's comments.
Should Trump testify in the trial, Carroll's lawyer wrote, “his recent statements and behavior strongly suggest that he will seek to create chaos.” Circus, it would favor him.
Trump himself has made his position clear. In a news conference on Thursday, the former president said after final arguments in his fraud trial that his numerous criminal cases could be viewed as “part of the campaign” for a return to the White House.
The data seems to be correct. The former president has managed to collect millions of dollars each time he has been impeached and is the favorite in all polls to win the Republican nomination for this year's presidential election.
In addition to his trial in New York, Trump faces four additional criminal cases: two for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which he lost to current President Joe Biden; One for taking secret documents from the White House to his Florida residence and another in connection with payments to porn actress Stromy Daniels to hide an old affair.