The judge also said that the former president could be "tampering with a new source of liability" if he continued. The posts led Judge Kaplan to tell Mr Trump’s legal team, outside the jury’s presence, that the former president appeared to be "endeavoring, certainly, to speak to his quote-unquote public" and to the jury about matters that have "no business being spoken about”. "There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this?"Įric Trump appears to have deleted his tweet (Twitter) The former president took to Truth Social about an hour before Wednesday’s testimony began and questioned how anyone could believe he – "being very well known, to put it mildly!" – could have raped Ms Carroll. The warning to Eric came after the judge had already issued a warning to his father over comments he made on Truth Social on Wednesday morning about the case. “If I were in your shoes, I’d be having a conversation with your client,” he said, later adding that “there are some relevant United States statutes here and somebody on your side ought to be thinking about them”.Įric’s tweet appears to have been deleted – but several social media users had already screenshotted his comments. “I said something this morning about your client perhaps now sailing in harm’s way, conceivably with his son, if what I just heard is true,” he said. Judge Lewis Kaplan was not amused by Eric’s post, telling Mr Tacopina that such comments needed to stop – or both Eric and his father could find themselves in hot water. The judge had just ruled that Mr Hoffman’s financing of Ms Carroll’s case could not be used as evidence in the trial. In court on Wednesday, Ms Carroll’s attorney brought up Eric’s tweet after the judge had already warned Mr Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina about his client posting about the case online. He branded Mr Hoffman’s involvement “an embarrassment to our country, should be illegal and tells you everything you need to know about the case in hand.” In the post, Eric fumed that Ms Carroll’s trial was being funded by LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman “out of pure hatred, spite or fear of a formidable candidate”. Eric Trump has been warned that he could be hit with charges if he continues to post comments on social media about E Jean Carroll’s civil rape trial against his father.ĭonald Trump’s son took to Twitter this week to weigh in on the case currently playing out in a Manhattan court, where magazine columnist Ms Carroll is suing the former president for rape and defamation.
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