Trump lawyers say they won’t call witnesses at rape trial

Donald Trump (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Donald Trump’s lawyers have said they will not call any witnesses at the New York civil trial arising from writer E Jean Carroll’s claims that the former president raped her in the mid-1990s.

Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina said they decided not to put on a defence case after learning that health issues were preventing their expert witness, a psychiatrist, from giving evidence.