Trump’s Defence in E. Jean Carroll Trial: “No One Can Prove I Can Read”
NEW YORK — As the highly anticipated defamation trial between former President Donald J. Trump and author E. Jean Carroll gets underway, the world is left reeling at the latest bombshell defence strategy employed by Trump’s legal team: claiming he cannot read.
Carroll, who has accused Trump of sexual assault in the 1990s, filed the defamation lawsuit in response to Trump’s public denial of her allegations, in which he claimed to have never met her and suggested she was not his “type.” However, Trump’s legal team, led by his longtime attorney Rudy Giuliani, has now argued that the former President cannot be held responsible for his public statements, as he is functionally illiterate.
“Your Honour, we submit that Mr. Trump cannot be held responsible for any defamatory statements, as it is widely known that he is incapable of reading,” Giuliani said during his opening statement. “He has consistently demonstrated throughout his life and presidency that he prefers television and Twitter to the written word. In fact, we believe that he may be the first President in history to have never actually read a book.”
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