Trump's three-minute testimony in his defamation suit case may have boosted his stock with the jurors who will decide his financial fate.
"He did manage to -- within the tight confines that were established to support his case," Norm Eisen said during an appearance on CNN. "Even though the judge struck it."
In Manhattan's federal court on Thursday, when questioned about whether Trump supported comments he made in a video deposition from 2022 that writer E. Jean Carroll's claims that she was sexually assaulted in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman back in the 1990s amounted to a "hoax" and "con job" — he answered, "100%. Yes."
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The 45th president, who is also the leading GOP candidate running to become the 47th president, walked out of the courtroom and told spectators thrice, that “this is not America.”
And when asked if he ordered anyone to hurt Carroll, Trump answered: "No.“
He later explained: "She said something that I considered to be a false accusation. I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency.”
That last comment, save for "No" was stricken by Judge Lewis Kaplan.
But Eisen believes the comment that was nixed from the record and supposed to be wiped from the jurors' minds may resonate with the jury of his peers.
Or at least one of them.
"His one hope is there's a sympathetic pro-Trump juror on this panel that will negotiate those numbers down or maybe even do jury nullification and refuse to go along [with the others]."
The one line that Trump managed to get in aside from the others under his breath, helped his cause to possibly trim the damages but Eisen also believes he may still be handed a result demanding a huge payout.
"I still feel he's facing a large, large verdict," he said.
