Former President Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom today for the E. Jean Carroll defamation case against him. The key question in this high-profile trial is whether Trump will take the stand and testify. Carroll's lawyers are expected to wrap up their case soon, and they plan to introduce new evidence, including the infamous Access Hollywood tape and recent posts from Trump's social media platform, Truth Social.
Carroll, a writer and columnist, accuses Trump of defaming her when he denied sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. Her legal team intends to present various pieces of evidence to support her claim. First, they plan to play excerpts from Trump's videotaped deposition, which was shown during the previous trial. In the deposition, Trump was questioned about a photograph of him and Carroll at a charity event, where he mistook her for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.
