Donald Trump was threatened with eviction from his civil trial in Manhattan on Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to remain silent, while writer E. Jean Carroll tested claims he had destroyed her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told the former president that he had the right to be present at the trial

would would

be withdrawn if he

remains have remained

disruptive. After an initial warning, Carroll’s attorney said Trump continued to make comments to his lawyers, including that it is a witch hunt and that it is actually a scam.

Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial, Kaplan said in a conversation after the jury was excused from lunch, adding: I understand that you would probably like me to do that.

“I would love it,” Trump responded with a shrug as he sat between lawyers Alina Habba and Michael Madaio at the defense table.

I know you would like that

it,” Kaplan replied. ‘You

Apparently you just can’t control yourself in these circumstances.”

Kaplan responded.

You can’t do that either, Trump muttered.

Kaplan cracked down after Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley complained for a second time that Trump could be heard loudly saying things that were untrue as he sat at the defense table, often leaning back in his chair and leaning forward to talk to his attorney.

Among his comments, Crowley said, was that the longtime Elle magazine advice columnist lied about the attack and that she appeared to have regained her memory. Crowley suggested that if Carroll’s lawyers could hear Trump from where they were sitting, about 10 feet away

(3.7 meters)

jurors might also have heard him from him.

I’m just going to ask that Mr. Trump take special care to keep his voice low when he consults with counsel to make sure the jury doesn’t hear, Kaplan said before jurors returned to the courtroom after a morning break .

Earlier, without the jury in the courtroom, Trump could be seen slapping his hand on the defense table and uttering something

the word,

man”

,

When the judge again denied his lawyers’ request Thursday to suspend the trial so he could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral in Florida.

Carroll, 80, was the first witness in a trial in federal court in Manhattan to determine any damages Trump owes her for comments he made while president in June 2019 while vehemently denying ever having her attacked or knowing her. A jury last year

already

found that Trump sexually assaulted her in 1996 and defamed her when he issued a round of denials in October 2022.

Carroll’s, which continues Wednesday afternoon, was something of an appearance

tight tight

due to the limitations that the judge has placed on the trial in light of the previous judgment and previous statements he has made to limit the input of political talk into the proceedings. Habba has raised multiple objections to prevent the jury from hearing details of Carroll’s sexual abuse allegations.

“I paid about as much as it’s possible to pay,” Carroll said, referring to the damage she said Trump had done to her reputation.

She said Trump’s vitriol toward her has not let up, pointing to multiple social media posts he has made about her in recent days, and that his rhetoric continues to stoke vitriol against her from strangers for

claimed said

he sexually assaulted her decades ago.

He sang last month. On Sunday he sang. He sang yesterday. And I’m here to get my reputation back, Carroll said.

She said she opened a social media website on Tuesday and saw a message that read: Hey lady, you’re a fraudster.

Carroll said she became concerned for her personal safety after a stream of death threats led her to buy bullets for a gun she inherited from her father, install an electronic fence, warn her neighbors of threats and turn her pit bull loose. to wander around the grounds of the small cabin in the mountains of New York State where she lives alone.

She also brought security for the trial this week and last May

,

and said shed

often

thought

often

about hiring security to accompany her more often.

Why not? her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, requested no relationship with the judge.

“I can’t afford it,” Carroll replied.

She took the stand after a hostile meeting between Habba and

Right

Kaplan culminated in Trump’s office speaking out about the judges who refused to postpone the trial Thursday so Trump could attend the former president’s funeral

F

First

L

Melania Trump’s mother, Amalija Knavs, who died last week.

Habba called the judge’s ruling insanely prejudicial, and the judge interrupted her shortly afterwards, saying he would hear no further argument on it.

Habba said to the judge: I will not be spoken to like that, Your Honor. When she spoke again about the funeral, the judge replied: it was rejected. Sit down. Take it to the jury.

Carroll’s testimony came nine months after she sat in the same chair

convincing a jury in the hope that Trump could be persuaded to do so

convince a jury

to detain Trump

responsible in a way that would keep him from frequent verbal attacks against her as he campaigns for president. He is the frontrunner on the Republican ticket and won the Iowa caucuses on Monday.

I’m here because Donald Trump attacked me

,

and when I wrote about it he said it never happened. He lied and ruined my reputation, she said.

Once Carroll tested, she was a respected advice columnist. Now I am known as the liar, the fraudster and the idiot.

Because the first jury found that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial will only focus on how much more, if any, will be ordered to pay her for other comments he made in 2019 when he was president.

Trump, who combines court appearances with campaign stops, took part in jury selection on Tuesday. Before the opening statements began, he left for a rally in New Hampshire.

He declared on social media on Tuesday that the case was nothing more than fabricated lies and political ploys that had earned his accuser money and fame.

I am the only one hurt by this extortion attempt, read a post on his Truth Social platform.

Caroll

an advice columnist and magazine writer,

has said that Trump has deeply harmed her. First, she claims, he forced himself on her in a dressing room after a chance encounter at a luxury department store in 1996. Then he publicly questioned her honesty, her motives and even her sanity after she publicly told the story in a 2019 memoir.

Carroll has maintained that she has lost millions of readers and her old post at Elle magazine, where her advice column Ask E. Jean ran for more than a quarter century, because of her accusations and Trump’s response to them. Elle has said that her contract was not renewed for unrelated reasons.

Trump claims that nothing ever happened between him and Carroll and that he never met her. He says a 1987 party photo of them and their then-husbands doesn’t count because it was a temporary greeting.

Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually assaulted and defamed Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. However, the jury said Carroll had not done so

proven proven

her claim that Trump raped her.

Carroll is now seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in additional damages.

The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.

Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report.