Prosecutors in the New York criminal hush money case against Donald Trump filed a notice Wednesday outlining their plans to question the former president about his previous civil trials to undermine his credibility.
filed a notice Wednesday outlining their plans to question the former president about his previous civil trials to undermine his credibility.includes “facts” pertaining to the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James , and the two “sexual abuse” defamation lawsuits brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll.
“If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following,” Bragg’s office wrote in a filing dated March 10, which became public on Wednesday. The defendant also “sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Jury awarded the plaintiff $2,020,000 in compensatory and punitive damages on her sexual abuse claim,” Bragg’s office said, citing the May 9, 2023 judgment from Carroll’s first defamation case against Trump. The former president has repeatedly denied her allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s, which has served as the basis for her two defamation lawsuits against him.
County Criminal Court. The order keeps him from speaking negatively about witnesses, jurors, members of the prosecution, court staff, and family members of prosecutors and judges.Bragg’s list cited the former president’s previous gag order violations from his past civil trials, including when Trump “testified untruthfully under oath when he claims that his public comments about a judge’s law clerk were instead about a witness.
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