After Donald Trump’s unauthorized outburst during his New York civil fraud trial, the lawyers for E. Jean Carroll have asked Judge Lewis Kaplan in their case to take “certain prophylactic measures and curative instructions” to ensure Trump doesn’t turn another courtroom into a circus.
“It takes little imagination to think that Mr. Trump is gearing up for a similar performance here—only this time, in front of a jury. Indeed, as noted above, Mr. Trump promised a second round of this same scenario in his remarks to the press just yesterday,” the lawyers say before listing a number of potential steps the court could take such as advising Trump of consequences in advance and also:
requiring Mr. Trump to state on the record and under oath, out of the presence of the jury, but in open court—that he understands that it is established for purposes of the trial that he sexually assaulted Ms. Carroll, and that he spoke falsely with actual malice and lied when accusing her of fabricating her account and impugning her motives, and that Mr. Trump further understands and accepts all of the limits that the Court has imposed on his testimony in this action and will conduct himself in the courtroom in accordance with those limitations.