Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial



FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. A judge late Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can't present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury's conclusion last year that he didn’t rape the columnist in the mid-1990s. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. A judge late Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape the columnist in the mid-1990s. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence was sufficient to conclude that he raped her.

Trump, speaking in Iowa on Saturday as the Republican frontrunning presidential candidate in advance of a Jan. 15 primary, criticized the judge as a “radical Democrat” and mocked E. Jean Carroll for not screaming when she was attacked. “It was all made up,” he said.

Carroll, 80, won a $5 million award last May from a jury that concluded Trump sexually abused her in 1996 in a luxury department store dressing room and defamed her in 2022.

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