A legal expert previewed the testimony E. Jean Carroll would likely give against Donald Trump as her second defamation trial opens.
The former president was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her at the first trial last year, and those facts are not in dispute in this trial, which will focus narrowly on the comments Trump made about Carroll while serving as president.
"I think E. Jean Carroll can't testify about the sexual assault," legal analyst Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "But what she can testify to is the person she was before, what her career looked like before the defamation, and what her life and her career now look like after, particularly in the wake of his initial comments in 2019. You'll remember E. Jean Carroll published an excerpt from her memoir in which she accounted for the sexual assault in June of 2019. Within a day or five hours after that first went up on New York Magazine website Donald Trump was on the attack."
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"It's those statements E. Jean Carroll will testify in the wake of the threats started coming, the contracts were cut, her life changed in two meaningful ways," Rubin added. "In terms of the threats to her physical security and in terms of her ability to earn a livelihood as a writer. E. Jean Carroll is a very distinguished writer who has written for everything from Esquire to Rolling Stone to 'Saturday Night Live,' where she was nominated for an Emmy. A person who had a real career that ended in the wake of Donald Trump's defamation."
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