disliked his politicsim not settling a political score at all carroll said im settling a personal score because he called he a liar repeatedly and it really has decimated my reputationshe said trumps attacks caused elle to fire her costing her 8 million readers and left others convinced she was a liarcarroll broke down when asked if she regretted ending her silenceive regretted this about 100 times she said but in the end being able to get my day in court finally is everything to melawyers for trump are expected to question carroll on thursday including over her inability to remember when the alleged rape took placeoutside interferencetrump posted his latest comments on truth social about an hour before wednesdays testimony beganhe questioned how anyone could believe he being very well known to put it mildly could have raped carrollshe didnt scream trump wrote there are no witnesses nobody saw thisthe posts led kaplan to tell trumps legal team outside the jurys presence that trump appeared to be endeavoring certainly to speak to his quoteunquote public and to the jury about matters that have no business being spoken aboutkaplan also said trump could be tampering with a new source of liability if he continued trumps lawyer joe tacopina said he would tell trump to stopbut concern about social media influencing the trial resurfaced after trumps son eric tweeted on wednesday afternoon about reid hoffman the billionaire linkedin cofounder and prominent democratic donor helping fund carrolls caseeric trump said hoffmans involvement was an embarrassment to our country should be illegal and tells you everything you need to know about the casekaplan told tacopina such comments needed to stopthere are some relevant us statutes here and somebody on your side ought to be thinking about them kaplan saidthe judge also said donald trumps lawyers cannot mention hoffman at the trial calling it unfairly prejudicialread more emily henry on writing romances love and more