Donald Trump was back in court on Tuesday, this time for jury selection in a trial that will determine what additional damages the former president owes E. Jean Carroll after repeatedly attacking her despite being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author last year.
Despite already being on the hook for $5 million in damages — and facing steep additional penalties for his continued public attacks against her — Trump spent the morning after his Iowa caucus win unleashing a social media tirade against the columnist he allegedly raped in the 1990s.
Trump was found liable for defamation and battery against Carroll in May of last year, in a civil case that litigated Carroll’s claims that the former president had sexually assaulted in a department store. In September, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over Carroll’s ongoing defamation…
