Trump Won’t Testify in Carroll Trial Over Suit Alleging Rape (3)

Donald Trump has decided not to testify in the trial of a New York author’s lawsuit claiming he raped her in the 1990s, sparing the former president a grilling on the witness stand.

Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina told US District Judge Lewis Kaplan of his client’s decision after the jury left for the day on Tuesday afternoon, the fifth day of the trial of E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit claiming sexual assault and defamation.

“It’s his call,” the judge said. “I understand that. You understand that. He understands that, right?”

“Yes,” Tacopina said, without elaborating.

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