As I’m sure you’ll recall, late last week Donald Trump made a grand declaration when speaking to reporters who had assembled at his golf course in Ireland, where he raged about having to leave Ireland and Scotland earlier than he intended to travel back to New York where he claimed he planned to “confront” his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll, who he openly referred to as a “disgrace,” as well as “extremely hostile” Judge Lewis Kaplan.
In his massive rant, the scandal-ridden ex-president proclaimed:
I have to leave Ireland and I have to leave Scotland where I have great properties. I have to leave early. I don’t have to, but I choose to. Will you attend the trial? Mr. President, I’m probably going to attend and I probably will and I think its a disgrace. It’s a disgrace that it’s allowed to happen against a rich guy or in my case, against a famous, rich and political person that’s leading the polls by 40 points. And I have to go back for a woman that made a false accusation about me, and I have a judge who is extremely hostile and I’m going to go back and I’m going to confront this. But this woman is a disgrace and it shouldn’t be allowed to happen in our country. You go to work.”
The New York Daily News determined that was a lie.
While Trump didn’t outright state that his “confrontation” with E. Jean Carroll — who has publicly accused the now-former president of brutally raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and has now lodged a massive civil rape and defamation lawsuit against Trump in the state of New York — would take place at the trial, that was certainly the given assumption among Americans who heard his tirade over the pond.
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Since the very beginning of this trial, Donald’s equally problematic attorney, Joe Tacopina, has repeatedly asserted that his ex-presidential client would not be taking the stand or testifying in any way in this case. However, Trump’s declaration in Ireland was indicative enough of an impending personal testimony that even the judge on the case opened the door to allowing Donald to speak on his own behalf.
“Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan gave Trump until 5 p.m. on Sunday to request the case be reopened so that he could testify,” NY Daily News reported. “The judge’s eleventh-hour courtesy came after learning Trump told reporters last week that he’d cut his golfing trip in Ireland short so he could come back and attend the trial, unbeknown to his lawyer.”
However, according to the report, ex-President Donald Trump will not be taking to the stand in the civil rape and defamation trial, despite his dramatic “vow” to the contrary.
5 pm EST came and went on Sunday, and not a single thing was updated on the docket site that indicated that the trial would be reopened or the former US president would be taking the stand to testify in the case.
The only “confronting” Trump has been doing lately has been behind the keyboard on his social media platform, where he has repeatedly and openly trashed and attacked his rape accuser, as well as the judge presiding over the case.
Trump’s rhetoric and behavior were, in fact, so deplorable that his own attorney, Joe Tacopina, promised the court that he would “try to address” the deeply disgusting, slanderous, and neverending public social media posts “with my client,” after Judge Kaplan found himself with a bad taste in his mouth over Trump’s actions and public slander.
“Well, I hope you’re more successful,” Judge Kaplan stated to Tacopina before noting that the former president “may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability. … And I think you know what I mean.”
The ex-president’s legal team didn’t put forth a single witness in the trial. In fact, the only defense on Donald’s behalf was through cross-examination during the petitioner’s portion of the case trial.
The trial is expected to close today, following closing statements from both legal teams.
Read the full report from New York Daily News here.
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