Closing arguments to begin in E Jean Carroll defamation trial towards Donald Trump: Live updates

As we noticed earlier, the Republican National Committee swiftly walked again its transfer to coronate Donald Trump early after the candidate himself rejected it.

But Nikki Haley’s camp was additionally incensed by the aborted decision.

“Who cares what the RNC says? We’ll let millions of Republican voters across the country decide who should be our party’s nominee, not a bunch of Washington insiders,” her marketing campaign spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas informed Fox News.

“If Ronna McDaniel wants to be helpful she can organise a debate in South Carolina, unless she’s also worried that Trump can’t handle being on the stage for 90 minutes with Nikki Haley.”

RNC spokesperson Keith Schipper tried to chill the state of affairs by saying in a press release of his personal: “Resolutions, such as this one, are brought forward by members of the RNC. Chairwoman McDaniel doesn’t offer resolutions.

“This will be taken up by the Resolutions Committee, and they will decide whether to send this resolution to be voted on by the 168 RNC members at our annual meeting next week.”

The final Republican challenger left standing has been pivoting since New Hampshire in the direction of pitching herself as a Tea Party unique in an specific enchantment to Trump’s hard-right base, suggesting she was doing conservative populism lengthy earlier than MAGA was a twinkle in her rival’s eye.

She can be working arduous to counsel, improbably, that’s she the true “anti-establishment” candidate and implies Trump is now a part of the exact same “DC swamp” he as soon as promised to empty.

She additional argues that Democrats WANT Trump to win as a result of they will imagine Biden can beat him, however not her.

AND she’s already promoting T-shirts capitalising on his menace yesterday to excommunicate her donors from his motion, serving Trump a dose of his personal medication.

Where has this combating spirit been for the final calendar 12 months??

A federal decide in Washington DC has sentenced former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro to 4 months in jail and fined him $9,500 for wilfully defying a subpoena issued by the House January 6 choose committee in 2021.

Navarro is the second ex-Trump administration aide to obtain a custodial sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress.

His onetime White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was sentenced to 4 months in jail final 12 months however is interesting his sentence.

Andrew Feinberg filed this report from Washington, DC.

Andrew Feinberg has been talking to veteran GOP consultants about what they’ve fabricated from the Republican presidential contest to date.

This is what they needed to say.

The Independent’s Ariana Baio is again on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse in New York immediately and might be bringing us dates all through the day because the jury receives its directions and shutting arguments are heard in E Jean Carroll’s defamation trigger towards Donald Trump, who can be understood to be returning to witness proceedings.

The final time they stated this it wasn’t true, however they could possibly be proper this time.

John Bowden has this response to Tuesday’s New Hampshire main from Capitol Hill.

Struggling to attack President Biden on the economic system when the numbers are more and more optimistic, Trump now seems, like his MAGA allies within the House, to be pivoting in the direction of making unlawful immigration the centre of his argument for a belated second time period.

“Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home,” he threatens, promising to work intently with Texas governor Greg Abbott.

Continuing to rage nastily about “the unsustainable Invasion that is currently taking place – A DEATH WISH for the U.S.A”, he additionally served up a shock by as soon as extra reviving Mitt Romney’s hilarious “Pierre Delecto” Twitter alias, which I, for one, am delighted to be reminded of.

Clearly offended after not being allowed to talk freely in court docket, Trump returned to Truth Social night time to rant and rave, posting a very cross and incoherent video lashing out about his present woes.

Closing arguments within the trial are set to begin immediately within the defamation case towards Trump a day after the previous president left a New York courtroom fuming that he hadn’t been given a chance to refute Carroll’s sexual abuse accusations.

Lawyers will get to sum up their instances for 9 jurors who will begin deliberating later within the day whether or not Carroll, a former journal recommendation columnist, is entitled to greater than the $5 million she was awarded in a separate trial final 12 months.

CNN reported final night time that the defendant is predicted to return to look at proceedings on Friday.

Here’s extra on what else we will anticipate.

Hours after firing off dozens of Truth Social posts attacking E Jean Carroll, Donald Trump appeared (briefly) on the witness stand on Thursday in a trial that may decide how a lot he owes her for defamation.

Before he was known as to the stand, US district decide Lewis Kaplan instructed the previous president’s legal professional that she will solely ask him whether or not he stands by his earlier deposition testimony and if he has ever instructed anybody to harm Carroll.

While the jury was out of the room, because the decide and attorneys mentioned what he might really say, Trump interrupted Habba to repeat that he by no means met Carroll and doesn’t know her.

The decide informed him to maintain his voice down and informed him he was not permitted to talk.

And in an awfully temporary change after solely three questions from his legal professional, Trump testified that he stands by his earlier deposition “100 per cent”.

Alex Woodward and Ariana Baio have been following the trial and filed this report.