Former President Donald Trump will not present any witnesses in the civil trial over allegations of rape against writer E. Jean Carroll, his attorney told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. Trump's team initially had an expert witness lined up to counter Carroll's claims, before the witness cited health issues. The aforementioned trial centers on claims by Carroll that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store, while Trump himself calls it a "hoax" and a "con job." Trump is being sued by Carroll for defamation and battery. Playing parts of Trump's deposition from last October, lawyers for Carroll pointed out that Trump calls her allegations "ridiculous" and that she fabricated the entire story. The deposition will be played in full on Thursday, as Stoynoff, another accuser of Trump's, testified on Wednesday about him allegedly accosting her while working at his Florida's Mar-a-Lago resort in 2005. Carroll has said that the #MeToo movement inspired her to finally speak out in 2019, two decades after the alleged attack.