Former President Donald Trump has arrived in court this morning.

The proceedings, which were scheduled to get underway at 9:30 a.m. ET, were off to a late start.

If former President Trump takes the stand in his own defense today, it will happen after Carroll's attorneys rest their case.

Carroll's lawyers plan to call one final witness: Robbie Myers, the former editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, where Carroll was an advice columnist.

As part of the defense's case, Trump's lawyers also plan to call Carol Martin, a friend of Carroll's who testified in the earlier assault and defamation trial.

In a post to his Truth Social platform overnight, former President Trump indicated that he will attend his defamation damages trial today.

"But now I'm heading back to New York City for a trial based on False Accusations, from perhaps decades ago -- The woman has no idea when!" Trump wrote. Carroll has accused Trump of assaulting her around 1996 but can't pinpoint the year.

In a series of other posts, Trump also disparaged Carroll, said she made up her story, and suggested she was a paid political operative.

If Trump takes the stand today, he would be banned from using any of those defenses based on a pretrial ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan which determined that -- because a jury last year already found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her -- Trump is barred from arguing that he did not sexually abuse Carroll or that he never met her.

Former President Trump's defamation damages trial has been postponed an additional day and is scheduled to resume on Thursday morning.

The postponement was announced in an update posted to the court's docket.

The trial was adjourned Monday morning due to COVID-19 concerns.

Former television newswoman Carol Martin, testifying as a hostile witness for the defense, said that her longtime friend E. Jean Carroll "has an admirable reputation in the workplace."

Martin testified that she did, "on some levels," have concern for her safety and her daughter's safety after Carroll went public in 2019 with her sexual assault accusation against Donald Trump. Martin was among the friends Carroll had told about the assault.

"As I saw the popularity of that article, my daughter became more concerned," Martin said of the 2019 New York magazine story in which Carroll made the accusation.

"Ms. Carroll assured you she didn't have security concerns?" defense attorney Alina Habba asked. "That was her opinion," Martin said. "Jeanie didn't want us to worry."

Habba has argued that the harm Carroll said she suffered as a result of Trump's defamatory statements is overblown.

"Did you think Ms. Carroll enjoyed the attention?" Habba asked. "At points, in early years," Martin responded. She also affirmed she had texted a friend that Carroll's "narcissism had run amok."

Martin testified that "at some point" she became frustrated with what Habba described as Carroll's "celebratory behavior" in connection with her lawsuits against Trump. "It's a difference in our personalities, but we work around it," Martin said.

At one point Martin said she felt Carroll was "loving the adulation."

"Do you believe Ms. Carroll is enjoying this fame to some extent?" Habba asked. "I think she is adapting to this phase in her life. Enjoying is a multifaceted word," Martin said, ending her direct examination.