defamation
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After spending the day admonishing the writer on Truth Social, the former president gave brief testimony in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, speaking for less than four minutes.
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The fact that the parents’ claims were not fully litigated means that important issues in the law of defamation remain unresolved.