Defiant Trump takes legal risk on stand in New York defamation trial
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Defiant Trump takes legal risk on stand in New York defamation trial

Donald Trump testified on Thursday in the defamation trial brought by writer E Jean Carroll‚ but his much-anticipated time on the stand was kept brief. The former president - who has already been found to have defamed Ms Carroll for comments he made about her in 2019 - was under strict rules on what he could say. But he told the jury that he stood "100%" by a deposition given in 2022 in which he strongly denied her sexual assault allegations and called her a "whack job". Other comments...