Writer E. Jean Carroll's second trial against Donald Trump kicked off on Tuesday morning, with her lawyers imploring jurors to hit the former president with financial damages for continuing to defame her, per Business Insider.
Trump, who was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million after being found liable of sexually abusing and defaming her in May, has continued to deny the longtime columnist's allegations that he assaulted her in a department store dressing room in New York in the 1990s. "Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman's fake story?!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday. The ex-president also doubled down on previous assertions that the case is a "hoax" and a "witch-hunt," language he has used to describe some of his indictments.
