Donald Trump trial: Judge scolds Trump for 'inappropriate' post on Carroll's suit donor
Kaelan Deese
Former President Donald Trump's attorney was scolded Wednesday by the judge presiding over E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial after Trump posted to Truth Social that his rape accuser "tried to hide" a wealthy political donor funding her lawsuit.
Carroll, the former columnist who brought her lawsuit against Trump in November, said that Trump defamed her when he called her allegations a "Hoax and a lie" when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the 1990s.
On Truth Social Wednesday morning, Trump posted that Carroll's legal team is being "financed by a big political donor that they tried to hide."
He made a second post about Carroll, saying, "She said there was a dress, using the ol' Monica Lewinsky 'stuff,' then she didn't want to produce it."
Before the nine-member jury entered the courtroom to hear testimony, Carroll's attorney read aloud parts of the social media post and claimed they violated the judge's orders against "comments about lawyers and one about DNA," according to Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan.
"These are out-of-court comments obviously," said defense attorney Joe Tacopina, but U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan interjected, saying, "What you're trying to do is to get away from a statement by your client, a public statement, that on the face of it seems entirely inappropriate."
"We're getting into an area in which your client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability, and I think you know what I mean," the judge added.
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