Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
With just under five minutes of surprisingly reserved testimony from Donald Trump just now, the defense has rested its case in the defamation damages trial against the former president by E.
Jean Carroll. Taking the stand as promised, Trump was usually circumspect in his responses to his lawyer on Thursday. “No, I just wanted to defend myself, my family and frankly, the presidency,” the much indicted ex-president responded to attorney Alina Habba’s question of “did you ever instruct anyone to hurt Ms.
Carroll in your statements” in 2019. Earlier, with former Elle columnist Carroll sitting just a few feet away, Trump stated “Yes I did,” when asked by Habba if he thought Carroll’s sexual assault claims were false. “She said something that I considered a false accusation — totally false.” Having put some pretty strict guardrails in place for Trump before the jury was brought back in to hear his testimony today, New York state Judge Lewis Kaplan immediately jumped in to tell the court that “everything after ‘yes I did’ is stricken.” Sticking to the judge’s guidelines, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan got in one question of cross-examination of Trump. “Is this the first trial that you have attended involving you and E.
Jean Carroll?” she asked, Trump replied “Yes.” Going into closing arguments tomorrow, it is obvious that attorney Kaplan wanted the jury to know that Trump never even bothered to show up even once for Carroll’s sexual assault trial against him last year.
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