Trump Chickened Out, Didn't Testify At Own Trial

Former President Donald Trump rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996, Larry Neumeister reported for the Associated Press (AP).

Photo Insert: Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina told the judge that Trump had waived his right to testify in the trial in Manhattan federal court and opted not to present a defense in the case.

Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina told the judge that Trump had waived his right to testify in the trial in Manhattan federal court and opted not to present a defense in the case, gambling that jurors will find that Carroll had failed to make a persuasive case, Luc Cohen and Hannah Lang also reported for Reuters.

Carroll sued Trump in November, minutes after New York state enacted a law allowing adult sexual assault victims to sue others even if the attacks occurred decades earlier.

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, wrote a letter to the judge Sunday to complain that Trump still has not removed April 26 posts on his social media network in which he called Carroll's allegations “a made up SCAM.”

And she noted that he repeated disparaging remarks about the trial three days ago in Ireland.

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