Trump’s Second Defamation Trial
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Writer E. Jean Carroll is taking former President Donald Trump back to court, this time focusing on what damages, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for defaming her. Andrea Bernstein, journalist reporting on Trump legal matters for NPR, host of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" podcast from ProPublica & On The Media (previous podcasts: Will be Wild and Trump, Inc) and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), breaks down the first two days of the trial and what comes next.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.7 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | Among the many court proceedings Donald Trump is facing, |
| 0:18.4 | the one that's been taking place in New York this week |
| 0:21.0 | stands out for several reasons. It's round two of the |
| 0:24.1 | defamation suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll in which Trump has already |
| 0:29.1 | been found by a jury to have sexually assaulted Carol in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in the 1990s. |
| 0:37.0 | You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. |
| 0:42.0 | Just like I don't kissing them. It's like a magnet. I don't either way. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, that was Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape, made public just before the 2016 election. |
| 0:54.1 | The jury found that in this case, Carol didn't let him do it, kissing and more, but he did |
| 0:59.8 | it anyway. |
| 1:00.8 | Many women have said the case feels so personal to them because of things |
| 1:04.6 | they and people they know have gone through, but apparently Trump thinks it will |
| 1:08.6 | help him not hurt him politically because he showed up in the courtroom this week to make |
| 1:13.9 | disparaging remarks about Carol and the judge right in front of the jury that |
| 1:18.9 | will sit in judgment of him and the case apparently didn't move Nicky Haley enough to even acknowledge the sexual assault verdict |
| 1:26.0 | when she was asked point blank about it by a voter in a New Hampshire town hall |
| 1:31.0 | last weekend. |
| 1:32.0 | I mean first of all I haven't paid attention to his cases, and I'm not a lawyer. |
| 1:37.0 | 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 |
| 1:44.3 | got investigations on Trump and Biden. |
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