from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, January 19th.

Among the many court proceedings Donald Trump is facing, the one that's been taking place in New York this week stands out for

several reasons. It's round two of the defamation suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll,

in which Trump has already been found by a jury to have sexually assaulted Carol in a Bergdorf

Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in the 1990s.

You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful.

I just start kissing them.

It's like a magnet.

I just kidding.

I don't need to wait.

And when you're a star, they let you do it.

You can do anything.

Yeah, that was Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape,

made public just before the 2016 election.

The jury found that in this case,

Carol didn't let him do it, kissing and more, but he did it anyway. Many women have said the case feel so personal to them because of things they and people they know have gone through. But apparently

Trump thinks it will help him, not hurt him politically, because he showed up in the courtroom this week to make disparaging remarks about Carol and the judge right in front of the jury that will sit in judgment of him.

And the case apparently didn't move Nikki Haley enough to even acknowledge the sexual assault verdict when she was asked point blank about it by a voter in a New Hampshire town hall last weekend.

I mean, first of all, I haven't paid attention to his cases, and I'm not a lawyer.

All I know is that he's innocent until proven guilty, and when he's proven guilty and he's sitting in a courtroom, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You've got investigations on Trump and Biden. Interesting way to try to beat Trump in New Hampshire,

say you didn't even know he was actually found by a jury to have committed sexual assault.

The case this week is very Trump 24, too. After the first jury found that the assault happened and he defamed Carol by maliciously

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