Tag: Kaplan, Roberta A

At the Defense Table, Trump Uses the Courtroom as a Stage

He shook his head in anger, sitting with his back hunched. He spoke to his lawyers, his words sometimes quite audible to the packed courtroom. He wrote instructions for his defense team that he shoved their way. He walked in late at one point, and at another, while a lawyer suing him was speaking to […]

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Roberta Kaplan Was E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer and Trump’s Nemesis

The meeting turned ugly fast. In October 2022, Roberta Kaplan flew to Donald Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, to question him under oath in the defamation lawsuit that her client, the writer E. Jean Carroll, had filed against him after she accused him of sexually assaulting her. “She’s not my type,” Mr. Trump said when […]

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Trump May Testify Monday in Defamation Case Brought by E. Jean Carroll

With a Manhattan jury soon to decide how much money, if any, Donald J. Trump must pay the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when she first accused him of a decades-old rape in a department store dressing room, the question of whether Mr. Trump will testify still looms as the trial […]

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As Trump Continues to Insult E. Jean Carroll, 2nd Defamation Trial Opens

A Manhattan jury will be asked a narrow question this week: How much money must former President Donald J. Trump pay the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she accused him of raping her? Ms. Carroll’s chance encounter decades ago at the Bergdorf Goodman department store, in which she said Mr. Trump shoved […]

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E Jean. Carroll’s Lawyers Ask That Trump Not Make Defamation Trial a ‘Circus’

A lawyer for the writer E. Jean Carroll, whose latest defamation lawsuit against Donald J. Trump is scheduled for trial next week in Manhattan, asked a judge Friday to ensure that if the former president testifies, that he does not stray beyond the narrow issue in the case, with the goal of “turning this trial […]

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