Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw Elisabeth Jean Carroll’s case against former US President Donald Trump, gave the author a partial victory after concluding: The court that will examine a second defamation complaint in January should limit itself to determining the amount of damagesBecause the emperor’s sexual abuse was proven in an earlier process.
In particular, the judge is responsible for the next judicial process.It will focus only on the economic compensation Trump must pay the author. According to the ‘The Hill’ portal, for calling himself “crazy” and assuring that his statements about the sexual assault he suffered in the 90s were “false”.
The trial, which the former president is not expected to attend, will begin in New York in January and will take place after a Manhattan federal jury found Trump guilty of sexually assaulting Carroll in May.
Carroll sues Trump for sexual assault in the Bergdorf Goodman locker room in 1996A luxury department store in New York in the mid-nineties. But Trump denied such facts, accusing him of fabricating a book to sell and politically destroy himself.
The process will take place in the middle of the Republican primaries, where Trump will start as a favourite, and during the businessman’s confrontation. to the other four among other reasons, for classified documents and his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6.