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Trump's refusal to show up for his own trial is “unlikely to go over well with the jury," former prosecutor warns

E. Jean Carroll's accusation that Donald Trump raped her was not a "he said, she said" dispute, a lawyer representing the writer told jurors on Tuesday as a civil trial over the former U.S. president's conduct nearly three decades ago got under way.

Donald Trump’s growing list of criminal indictments is putting his “time-honoured strategy of delay, denial and distraction to its ultimate test”, said CNN. The former president, who is seeking re-election next year, will have to run his campaign while fighting “converging legal battles”.

Jury will hear writer E Jean Carroll’s civil claim that Trump assaulted her in 1990s – could this case finally bring a reckoning?