Trump sex attack defamation trial begins, one day after historic Iowa win
A day after scoring a landslide win in the Iowa Republican caucuses, former President Donald Trump is set to begin a civil trial in a sex assault defamation lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll in Manhattan federal court. Trump is in the courtroom for the trial Tuesday, when jury selection and opening statements are both expected to take place. The trial will determine just one question: what damages Trump should pay Carroll for defamatory statements he made about her while he was president, and then again last year, denying her claim that he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. Carroll's lawyers want him to pay at least $10 million. Another