Trump Won’t Testify in E. Jean Carroll Trial Over Lawsuit Alleging Rape
- Former president’s lawyer tells judge of client’s decision
- Question had been hanging over trial since deadline passed
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Donald Trump has decided not to testify in the trial of a New York author’s lawsuit claiming he raped her in the 1990s, sparing the former president a grilling on the witness stand.
Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan of his client’s decision after the jury left for the day on Tuesday afternoon, the fifth day of the trial of E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit claiming sexual assault and defamation.