Trump sex accuser faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom

NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s faced cross examination that aimed to diminish her credibility.

A Trump attorney tried to show the jury that E. Jean Carroll has achieved the fame, if not the fortune, she desired after linking herself to Trump in a memoir describing the incident she alleges.

Carroll responded: “No, my status was lowered. I’m partaking in this trial to bring my own reputation and status back.”

Carroll’s testimony came in Manhattan federal court where Trump was scolded a day earlier by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan after a lawyer for Carroll complained that he was grumbling about the case loudly enough that jurors could hear him.

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The judge told the Republican front-runner for the presidency that he might have to consider ejecting him from the trial if he continued making comments loudly