Former President Donald Trump testified in a Manhattan federal courthouse on Thursday in the ongoing civil defamation trial involving writer E. Jean Carroll. The trial is centered around Trump’s 2019 comments about Carroll, who is seeking at least $10 million in damages. What Happened: Trump’s testimony lasted less than five minutes, during which he faced multiple admonishments from Judge Lewis Kaplan. The trial is based on Trump’s 2019 comments about Carroll, who last year won a civil verdict over her claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when she first…
