Trump fumes as trial begins to determine how much he will pay ‘sex abuse victim’

Prospective jurors were told the trial is likely to last three to five days

Former US president Donald Trump, right, turns to look at an anonymous prospective juror, standing left, during questions posed by Judge Lewis Kaplan (Picture: Elizabeth Williams/AP)

Donald Trump shook his head in disgust as the judge in his New York defamation trial told prospective jurors that another jury had already decided the former US president sexually abused columnist E Jean Carroll in the 1990s.

Fresh from a political win on Monday in the Iowa caucuses, the Republican presidential frontrunner detoured to a Manhattan courtroom for what amounts to the penalty phase of a civil defamation lawsuit stemming from Ms Carroll’s claims he sexually attacked her in a department store dressing room.