Trump storms out of court during closing arguments in damages trial
Donald Trump stormed out of a courtroom on Friday as closing arguments began in a damages trial in New York.
A jury found Trump liable last year for sexually abusing E Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s and defaming her after she wrote about the incident.
The current trial focuses only on what damages Trump will have to pay for defaming Ms Carroll, 80.
Trump left as Ms Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan told jurors they should punish the former US president for persistently
lying about her client and destroying her reputation as a responsible journalist.
"We all have to follow the law," Ms Kaplan said. "Donald Trump, however, acts as if these rules and laws just don't apply to him."
District Judge Lewis Kaplan, not related to Ms Carroll's lawyer, said after Trump walked out: "The record will reflect that Mr Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom."
Ms Carroll is seeking at least $10m in compensatory damages and an unspecified amount in punitive damages. The jury could reach a verdict as early as today.
She is seeking the damages over Trump's 2019 denials, when he was president, that he raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
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