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- Donald Trump had only a few minutes on the witness stand in E. Jean Carroll's ongoing defamation trial against him.
- The judge told the jury to disregard much of his testimony and blocked him from answering several questions.
- In court, Trump interrupted the proceedings by continuing to claim he never met Carroll.
Rarely before have so many people — journalists, legal pundits, and the public — waited so long to hear Donald Trump say so little.
The Republican frontrunner was given a new platform on Thursday, the microphone of the witness stand in the Manhattan federal courtroom of the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.
But the federal judge in the case ran such a tight ship that Trump was allowed, on his direct testimony, to give brief answers to just four questions.