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E Jean Carroll lawyer warns Trump plans to turn damages trial into ‘circus’

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E Jean Carroll in May last year. A jury will consider next week whether the former president owes her even more money in damages. Photograph: Edna Leshowitz/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Donald Trump’s legal woes continued to mount as a lawyer in an upcoming defamation case asked a judge to ensure the former president does not disrupt imminent legal proceedings – and, in a separate issue, he was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to the New York Times.

In the first of those two cases, a lawyer for E Jean Carroll – a columnist who last year won a $5m jury award against Trump for sexual abuse – urged a judge to take strong measures to ensure Trump does not “sow chaos” when a new jury considers next week if he owes even more in damages.

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