Trump ‘may give evidence’ at trial over defamation damages in sex abuse case

E Jean Carroll outside Manhattan federal court in May (Seth Wenig/AP)

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may give evidence at a mid-January civil trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan luxury department store.

The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court late on Thursday to request that Mr Trump’s October 2022 deposition transcript in the case not be shown to the jury because Mr Trump “has been named as a witness to testify at this trial”.