Donald Trump will not be coming to New York City to “confront” E. Jean Carroll as he recently vowed, passing up an opportunity Sunday to ask a judge to reopen his case so he can take the stand at his civil rape trial.
Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan gave Trump until 5 p.m. on Sunday to request the case be reopened so that he could testify. The judge’s eleventh-hour courtesy came after learning Trump told reporters last week that he’d cut his golfing trip in Ireland short so he could come back and attend the trial, unbeknown to his lawyer.
“I’m going back to New York. I was falsely accused by this woman, I have no idea who she is – it’s ridiculous,” Trump told the Irish Examiner on Thursday from his golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare, adding he had to “go back and confront this woman.”
The former Elle advice columnist and TV personality presented 11 witnesses and played footage of Trump making nasty remarks about her before resting her case Thursday. Trump’s lawyers didn’t put on a case, informing the court early last week that the psychiatrist they’d planned to call couldn’t make it. The former president could owe Carroll up to $2.7 million in damages if he’s found liable.
Nine New Yorkers will soon determine whether Trump committed battery in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room about 25 years ago and defamation when Carroll, 79, accused him of raping her decades later. The panel is set to get the case after hearing closing arguments Monday.
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