E. Jean Carroll arrived at a New York courthouse Tuesday morning for a trial that will determine what damages Donald Trump owes her for his 2019 defamatory statements about her sexual assault allegations.
The trial is the second in eight months in which the writer will face off against the former president.
In May, a different jury awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding that Trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in spring 1996, then defamed her in 2022 by claiming she made it up after she revealed it publicly in a 2019 memoir.
The 2024 GOP front-runner did not attend that trial but did show up Tuesday morning for the start of the latest trial after his victory at the Iowa caucuses hours earlier. He told reporters in Manhattan last week after attending closing arguments for the state’s civil fraud trial against him that he would be in attendance for the beginning of the Carroll trial. “Yeah, I’m gonna go to it and I’m gonna explain, I don’t know who the hell she is,” he said.
Trump then plans to head to New Hampshire to campaign ahead of the presidential primary there next week.
