NEW YORK (NEWSnet/AP) — Writer E. Jean Carroll is set to take the stand Wednesday to describe how Donald Trump’s verbal attacks affected her after she made public that he had sexually abused her decades ago.

Carroll is expected to testify in the second federal civil trial over her claims against Trump, who denies them all.

[Earlier Report: Jury Selection Begins in Defamation Trial Against Donald Trump]

Because the first jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her in 2022, the new trial concerns how much he will be ordered to pay based on additional remarks made while he was president.

Trump, who is juggling court appearances amid campaign stops in the Republican primary season, sat in on jury selection Tuesday. But before opening statements began, he left for a New Hampshire political rally.

Carroll has maintained she lost millions of readers and her longtime gig at Elle magazine, where her “Ask E. Jean” advice column ran for over a quarter-century, because of her allegations and Trump’s reaction to them. Elle has said her contract wasn’t renewed for unrelated reasons.

One of Carroll’s lawyers, Shawn Crowley, said in her opening statement that the writer also received violent threats from Trump backers.

Trump asserts that nothing ever happened between him and Carroll, indeed that he has never even met her. There’s a 1987 party photo of them and their then-spouses, but Trump says it was a momentary greeting that “doesn’t count.”

Trump did not attend the previous trial in the case last May, when a jury found he had sexually abused and defamed Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages.

Carroll is now seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and millions more in punitive damages.

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