Trump stands by testimony in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial

Jean Carroll's lawsuit claiming he should pay millions of dollars for defaming and sexually abusing her, testifying that he stood by his denials in a deposition. The former U.S. president spent about four minutes on the witness stand after Carroll's lawyers finished their case, and the judge rejected his bid to dismiss the civil lawsuit.

Donald Trump defended himself against the writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit claiming he should pay millions of dollars for defaming and sexually abusing her, testifying that he stood by his denials in a deposition.

The former U.S. president spent about four minutes on the witness stand after Carroll's lawyers finished their case, and the judge rejected his bid to dismiss the civil lawsuit. Trump said "100% yes" when asked if he stood by his testimony in an October 2022 deposition. His lawyers then rested their case, and closing statements are expected on Friday.

Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, is seeking at least $10 million over Trump's June 2019 denials that he had raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. Last May, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million after he denied her rape claim in October 2022.

Before Trump began testifying, Kaplan had narrowed the scope of what Trump would be allowed to say on the witness stand, saying he would not allow "do-overs by disappointed litigants."