Cross-examination of Carroll to resume
E. Jean Carroll will return to the witness stand this morning to resume her cross-examination -- this time without Donald Trump in the courtroom.
After attending the first two days of the trial, Trump will be absent today to attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs, who died last week after a long health battle.
During yesterday's proceedings, Judge Lewis Kaplan, for a third time, denied a request from Trump's legal team to pause the trial so Trump could attend the funeral.
"We would have assumed that for a trial like this, it's not an emergency in terms of timing, the judge would have been very nice, and they would let me go because I want to be at every trial day," Trump told reporters after court yesterday, calling Kaplan a "radical Trump hater."
Trump's attorney Alina Habba told Judge Kaplan she intends to question Carroll for less than an hour today, after which Carroll's lawyers plan to call to the stand an expert on reputational harm, as well as Robbie Myers, the former editor of the magazine where Carroll worked as an advice columnist.