Former President Donald Trump has continued to attack writer E. Jean Carroll as her civil defamation trial against him unfolds — and at trial today, he denied sexually assaulting her and besmirched her credibility, two things Judge Lewis Kaplan had explicitly prohibited him from doing before he moved to testify. But he faced no consequences for his actions, apart from having some of his commentary stricken from the record. The current civil trial Trump faces is purely about assessing damages, and is not intended to revisit the facts that previous juries ruled against Trump on. This development…