E Jean Carroll provides testimony in Trump slander trial

E Jean Carroll is now in court as the first person to give evidence in her second trial for saying that Donald Trump lied about her. This trial is happening in New York.

In May, it was decided that Mr Trump was responsible for sexually touching Ms Carroll in the 1990s and saying mean things about her after she told everyone about it in 2019.

The ex-president still says that Ms Carroll’s story is not true.

She got $5 million at first, and now she wants another $10 million.

On Tuesday, the person making the accusation and the person being accused were in the same room for the first time in over 20 years, when the jury was being chosen.

Mr Trump, who is 77 years old, was removed from his position in the previous trial. But he didn’t come in person or speak then. He is doing both things willingly in the current proceedings.

Ms Carroll, who is 80 years old, said that Mr. Trump assaulted her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s after they ran into each other by chance.

Her claim, which was first made public in New York magazine in June 2019, was denied by Mr Trump from the White House as a “lie” and a “fake story”.

The lawyer for Ms. Carroll said that the Republican president used his power to publicly attack and shame her, and ruin her reputation.

Shawn Crowley said in court that Mr. Trump made death and rape threats and said mean things online that made her client very scared to live each day.

Asking jurors to decide how much money Donald Trump should pay for his actions and how much money it will take to make him stop, Ms Crowley demanded a large amount of compensation.

However, Alina Habba, who is representing Mr. Trump in the case, said on Tuesday that Ms. Carroll should not receive money because her claim of being sexually assaulted by Mr. Trump had actually made her well-known.

“Proof will reveal that her career has been successful and she has been put back into the spotlight like she has always desired,” Ms Habba said.

“She really enjoys her new brand, and she has been making money from it for a long time,” she said.

Mr Trump is the top Republican candidate for president, but he also has a lot of legal trouble with 91 criminal charges and a civil fraud trial in New York.

On Monday, he won by a large margin in the Iowa caucuses, which is the first contest in the race to become the Republican candidate for the White House.

He will be in court on Wednesday and is also doing more campaign events in New Hampshire, where the next contest is happening.

He keeps saying he doesn’t know anything about Ms. Carroll, and he’s said it many times on his Truth Social platform while he was at the hearing on Tuesday.

It is believed that Mr. Trump will speak in court on Monday.