Judge in E. Jean Carroll trial warns Trump about social media comments

The decide overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll in opposition to Donald Trump warned the previous president’s counsel on Wednesday about feedback their shopper made on social media in regards to the case.

Carroll’s legal professional, Roberta Kaplan, exterior the presence of the jury, flagged to federal District Choose Lewis Kaplan a publish Trump made on his social media website Fact Social earlier Wednesday in regards to the lawsuit. The publish referred to as the swimsuit a rip-off and talked about DNA on Carroll’s gown that she alleges she was carrying on the time Trump allegedly forcibly raped and groped her in a Manhattan luxurious division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineties. Trump has denied the allegations.

Choose Kaplan warned Trump’s legal professional Joe Tacopina that the assertion and any additional statements in regards to the case may open Trump as much as “a brand new supply of potential legal responsibility.” Tacopina stated he would ask his shopper to chorus from any additional feedback in regards to the case.

The decide had beforehand requested the legal professionals to inform shoppers and witnesses to chorus from making statements which can be prone to incite violence or civil unrest, and to chorus from making feedback that might have the potential to jeopardize the security of people or the rule of regulation.

Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he raped her at Bergdorf Goodman within the spring of 1996 after which defamed her years later when she went public with the allegations.