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.

Defense attorney Alina Habba, delivering her closing argument, showed the jury a series of caustic tweets to make the case that E. Jean Carroll failed to prove she suffered the kind of reputational harm she said Donald Trump caused.

"As you can see, the total number of views of all these tweets that they feel best represents their case is a total of 143 views," Habba said. "That's not evidence of reputational harm."

Habba accused Carroll of enjoying the attention her accusation has created. "Ms. Carroll loves her new reputation and her life. My client is not enjoying this," she said.

"Let's not forget Ms. Carroll is making more money now than she was in June 2019," Habba said.

Habba said that in 2019, Carroll had hit "financial and social rock bottom" and decided to climb her way back to a lavish lifestyle with celebrity friends by making a public accusation against Trump.

"She made an allegation in the most public form by design," Habba said, adding that Trump had repeatedly made his position clear.

That drew an objection from the plaintiffs that was sustained by the judge, since Trump is not allowed to cause the jury to doubt an earlier verdict that held Trump liable for sexual assaulting and defaming Carroll.

"It is established," Judge Kaplan said.

"It is established by a jury," Habba added.

"It is established, and you will not quarrel with me," the judge said.

When Habba resumed, she mocked the reputational repair expert who testified that rehabilitating Carroll would cost as much as $12 million -- particularly the idea that conservative commentators Joe Rogan and Candace Owens should be paid to help Ms. Carroll repair her reputation.

"What planet are we living on?" Habba said.

The plaintiff's rebuttal will follow the defense's closing.