A defiant Trump is on display in the first week of E. Jean Carroll's defamation case

Former President Donald Trump spent his week whiplashing between courtrooms and political rallies.

Fresh off a primary win in Iowa and just before voters in New Hampshire head to the polls Tuesday, the front-runner for the GOP nomination attended a defamation trial in New York. Writer E. Jean Carroll sued Trump in 2019, accusing him of ruining her reputation when he called her a liar and denied her accusations of sexual assault. Now a jury will decide how much money, if any, Trump owes Carroll in damages.

"I'm here because Donald Trump assaulted me and when I wrote about it, he lied," Carroll said earlier this week when testifying.

Trump has been quick to defend himself, speaking at a rally last week in Iowa ahead of the trial, and on Thursday night before heading to New Hampshire, about the case.

"That's a nasty man, a nasty guy. He's a Trump-hating guy and it's obvious to everyone in the courtroom. It's a disgrace," Trump said of Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is presiding over the trial. And he added of Carroll: "This is a person who, until this happened, I had no idea who she was and nor could I care less. It's a rigged deal and a made-up fabricated story."

The trial this week kicked off with the selection of nine anonymous jurors and it is expected to wrap up next week.

It is one of several cases involving Trump, who is also awaiting a verdict in a civil trial that could result in him paying at least $250 million to New York state for his business practices, which have been deemed by a judge to be fraudulent. He could also be prohibited from doing business in the state where he made his name as a real-estate mogul. In all, Trump faces 91 charges in federal and state trials, ranging from the ones in New York to those