Lewis Kaplan, the New York federal judge handling E. Jean Carroll's case against former President Trump, threatened to exclude him from the trial for his "disruptive" behavior. This trial will determine the amount of compensation that Trump owes Carroll after defaming her.
"I would love to," was what Donald Trump said when Judge Kaplan alluded to his right to deprive the former president of access to the courtroom. “I know you would like it," Kaplan said before getting a response from the Republican primary and presidential candidate.
"You just can’t control yourself in this circumstances, apparently," Judge Kaplan continued, referring to Trump. "You can't either," Trump reportedly muttered, according to The Associated Press.
According to reports from inside the trial, Kaplan's issued the warning after Donald Trump spoke out on several occasions about the trial’s progress that puts him once again in front of the writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump claimed several times throughout the trial against writer E. Jean Carroll that it was part of a "witch hunt."
If Trump is found guilty, they will both come face to face with each other in court in New York. The novelist claimed that Trump raped her. The prosecution is asking for $10 million in compensation.
Trump was not found guilty of rape but of abuse. The court ruled that Carroll did not make false claims because “on the street," the condemned acts, although officially classified as "abuse," could be considered "rape" based on the laws of other states. After that first trial, Trump was ordered to pay $5 million to the writer.
A "totally biased and hostile" judge
Donald Trump took to Truth Social to comment on the situation in the New York trial. “The judge in the trial I am attending today is a totally biased and hostile person - the same Judge we had in the first trial, which my lawyer asked me not to attend because of the fact that he thought the case was so ridiculous and demeaning (and easy to win!) to a former president," the former president wrote online.
Trump also spoke about about the New York law that allows cases of sexual violence to be tried that would normally have expired. He claims that the trial is a tool to overthrow him in the next presidential elections. "The entire New York system is rigged against me because of the fact that I’m not only a former Republican president, but also am the leading Republican candidate, beating crooked Joe Biden, BY A LOT," he continued.
The former president seems to have felt inspired because he posted five messages about the same topic in less than an hour on Truth Social, the social network he created after leaving Twitter.
