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CNN reports:
Former President Donald Trump will testify in his own defense at the civil defamation trial in New York, his attorney Alina Habba said in court. Habba told Judge Lewis Kaplan that it will be “very brief.” The parties are first discussing what Trump will say and which questions he will answer.
As he sits at the defense table, former President Donald Trump is less active today in court than he was last week. He has not been making any audible comments in court, as he had done last week, only speaking to his attorney Alina Habba once so far.
Trump did lean in to read some of the text messages on the screen in front of him as Habba presented them to the court during a longtime friend of E. Jean Carroll, Carol Martin’s testimony.
Read the full article. Trump just got called to the stand.
Judge Kaplan is asking Alina Habba to tell him everything Trump plans to say on the witness stand. Habba: “I can’t testify for my client, your honor.”
— erica orden (@eorden) January 25, 2024
Habba says she plans to ask Trump three questions, including re: whether he stands by deposition, re: “his state of mind was that he was responding and defending himself” and “that he never instructed anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll in his statements.”
— erica orden (@eorden) January 25, 2024
Donald Trump was called to the stand Thursday in Manhattan to testify in his defamation damages trial involving writer E. Jean Carroll, two days after winning New Hampshire’s Republican primary election. https://t.co/XoFUtfOtaw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 25, 2024