Former President Donald Trump has rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.Trump, a Republican candidate for president in 2024, was given until 5pm local time (21:00 GMT) Sunday by US District Judge Lewis A Kaplan to file a request to testify. Nothing was filed.It was not a surprise. Trump has not shown up once during the two-week New York City trial where writer E Jean Carroll testified for several days, repeating claims she first made publicly in a 2019 memoir. She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages totalling millions of dollars.
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