Trump Judge Threatens to Kick Him Out of Defamation Trial (1)

A judge threatened to expel Donald Trump from a New York defamation trial for loudly muttering complaints during the court testimony of E. Jean Carroll, who claims he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll, the writer who last year won a separate sexual-abuse trial against Trump, seeks millions of dollars in damages, claiming her reputation was hurt when he ridiculed her 2019 allegation of sexual assault. The judge already held Trump liable for defamation, leaving it to a new jury trial to set damages.

While Carroll was on the stand testifying Wednesday, Trump ...