Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are not permitted to make legal arguments to a jury assessing damages in a defamation lawsuit brought about by the judgment of a jury from the previous year that he did not rape a columnist in the mid-1990s, a New York court ruled late on Jan. 6.
After a jury found that President Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll, but did not discover evidence that was adequate to decide that he raped her, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan announced the finding in an order issued before the trial that is set to take place on Jan. 16 to determine the amount of damages against President Trump.
