it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday said he will throw out Sarah Palin s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after concluding that the newspaper did not in an editorial maliciously link the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate to a mass murder.
it also pushes to preserve all communications between cohen and the president as well as cohen and stephanie clifford, a.k.a. porn star stormy daniels. also, all communications between cohen and karen mcdougal, the former playboy playmate who was also allegedly paid to keep quiet about an alleged affair with donald trump. here ee s buzzfeed on with ari t night connecting the dots. michael cohen s lawsuit is based on a part of the dossier that says he was sent by the trump campaign and the dossier uses the words to clean up the mess the trump campaign made and that is the type of allegation that we re having examples of with the stormy daniels allegations and what we re looking for is to know what it was mr. cohen did for the trump campaign because it would help us in our defense of the libel litigation. can t you win your case and defeat michael cohen s case about defamation without getting
question. what is the purpose of this letter and what do you make of ty cobb s response. the dossier actually uses the words to clean up the mess that the trump campaign had made and that is the type of allegation that we re having examples of with the stormy daniels allegation and what we re looking for is really to know what it was mr. cohen did for the trump campaign, because it would help us in our defense of the libel litigation. so ben, do you stand by your publication of the dossier, that s what michael cohen allegations is defamatory. absolutely. and i think a year, we published a bit more than a year ago, and when we did publish it, some people agreed with the decision to publish it. we published it because it had been reviewed by two the core