Kristen Stewart is opening up more than ever.
25.01.2024 - 20:51 / deadline.com
With just under five minutes of surprisingly reserved testimony from Donald Trump just now, the defense has rested its case in the defamation damages trial against the former president by E. Jean Carroll.
Taking the stand as promised, Trump was usually circumspect in his responses to his lawyer on Thursday. “No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly, the presidency,” the much indicted ex-president responded to attorney Alina Habba’s question of “did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms. Carroll in your statements” in 2019.
Earlier, with former Elle columnist Carroll sitting just a few feet away, Trump stated “Yes I did,” when asked by Habba if he thought Carroll’s sexual assault claims were false. “She said something that I considered a false accusation — totally false.”
Having put some pretty strict guardrails in place for Trump before the jury was brought back in to hear his testimony today, New York state Judge Lewis Kaplan immediately jumped in to tell the court that “everything after ‘yes I did’ is stricken.”
Sticking to the judge’s guidelines, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan got in one question of cross-examination of Trump. “Is this the first trial that you have attended involving you and E. Jean Carroll?” she asked, Trump replied “Yes.”
Going into closing arguments tomorrow, it is obvious that attorney Kaplan wanted the jury to know that Trump never even bothered to show up even once for Carroll’s sexual assault trial against him last year.
Before giving his testimony, Trump was clearly overheard to say in court: “I never met the woman … I do not know who this woman is” Leaving the courthouse today, the past and perhaps future president was heard to mumble “this is not America,” according
Kristen Stewart is opening up more than ever.
Kanye West has endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election race, despite having been described by him in the past as “a seriously troubled man”.A reporter stopped the rapper yesterday (February 13) asking him if he plans to support the former president in his attempt to return to the White House in the November election, and West was clear in his response.“Yeah, of course, it’s Trump all day,” he said. “What you talking about? You know what it is.” Check out the moment captured on video below.Ye is supporting Trump for the 2024 presidential elections pic.twitter.com/SE7J9OlI1Q— Donda Times (@dondatimes) February 13, 2024After a personal meeting between West and Trump in 2022, Trump wrote that the rapper was “a seriously troubled man” who has been “decimated in his business”.
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First he shocked the world by proclaiming he was giving up smoking.
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Wow! Could this be the financial blow to finally shut up Donald Trump?!
Donald Trump owes E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million, according to a New York jury.
After just three hours of deliberations, a New York jury today says Donald Trump has to pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in her defamation trial against the former president.
Ellise Shafer Heaven knows Johnny Marr is miserable now after Donald Trump played a Smiths song before a campaign rally. A video posted by ABC presidential campaign reporter Soorin Kim on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed the Smiths‘ “Hatful of Hollow” hit “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” playing during a Trump rally in South Dakota back in September. The band’s former guitarist took to the platform on Tuesday night to denounce the use of the song, writing: “Ahh…right…OK.
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The three Democrats running for California’s open Senate seat sought to define their differences at their first debate tonight, but the the real flashpoint was with the sole Republican on the stage, Steve Garvey, and where he stood on Donald Trump.
If your argument takes a turn where you mention pedophile priests, and you find you’re on their side? You might be the baddies!
As Donald Trump was about to step on stage on Sunday for another rally to tout the endorsement of another former rival, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley was about 30 miles south in New Hampshire, at a rally at Exeter High School, where a celebrity figure and daytime fixture was giving her her support: Judge Judy.
Donald Trump‘s campaign refused to agree to let an NBC News correspondent travel with him on New Hampshire campaign stops today as the designated pool reporter, leading to access being cut off for the day.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, ending a faltering bid where he tried to cast himself as a Trump-like candidate in a race where so much of the Republican base ended up preferring the real thing.
With just days before the New Hampshire primary, Saturday Night Live returned with James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump, this time talking to the press from the New York courtroom where he’s been attending one of a number of cases keyed up for 2024.
Early in Yance Ford’s visual essay “Power,” he tells the audience that the film to come either requires “curiosity” or “at least suspicion” from the viewer. It’s the type of bold claim that might pack a punch as a rhetorical hook, especially for a documentary that dives into the cultural, social, economic, and political history of policing in the United States.