Trump's expert witness will not be testifying, Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan just said in court.
That leaves the ex-president with no live witnesses on his list.
Tacopina confirms: No defense case.
Side note:
Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina euphemistically alludes to the upcoming admission of the "Billy Bush tape" by Carroll's legal team.
Without skipping a beat, Judge Kaplan adds: "We all know what you're talking about."
That's the Access Hollywood tape.
Judge Kaplan informs the jury that they should get the case "early next week."
Asked about Carroll not being afraid in New York, Lebowitz says that's became she feels safe and comfortable here.
By contrast, Carroll "sleeps with a loaded gun" in her cabin because of security concerns associated with stepping forward, the witness adds.
Lebowitz's testimony concludes.
Up next: Cande Carroll, E. Jean's sister
She's the younger sister, by four years.
Cande Carroll is expected to testify about their Indiana upbringing — and the unspoken codes of what her sister calls the "silent generation."
Her mother was a homemaker, she says.
(For clarity, I'll refer to her by her first name going forward.)
Q: How long would you talk about issues involving romantic relationships?
A: Never.
Q: When you were growing up, were you and E. Jean close?
A: Not particularly. We shared a room.
They became closer when they grew up and stopped sharing a room, Cande says.
She describes E. Jean writing a book about Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary gonzo journalist whom E. Jean's been likened to in her early career.
Cande says that she learned about E. Jean's sexual assault allegations against Trump when the rest of the world did — after an excerpt of her book "What Do We Need Men for?" was published in New York Magazine in 2019.
Q: Did it surprise you that E. Jean didn't tell you about the sexual assault before?
A: No.
Q: Why not?
They didn't talk about those things, Cande says.
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This is expected to be the last day of witness testimony in E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump. She's planning to rest her case today; he isn't planning to present a defense case.
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For those who heard Trump's claim that he's going to fly in from Ireland to "confront" Carroll in New York, reporter @molcranenewman sets you straight, via the ex-president's lawyer.