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Former President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his position in his Manhattan rape trial while touring his golf property in Ireland on Wednesday.
Trump gave the long-distance thumbs up to the performance of his legal team on a day attorney Joe Tacopina told a judge overseeing the trial the defense team would not call any witnesses in the case, and where a new witnesses provided dramatic testimony that could help his accuser.
Asked why he was in Ireland instead of attending the trial, Trump responded: 'Because we have a longstanding agreement to come here. We've had a tremendous reception, a beautiful reception.'
'The people of Ireland have been great and we have tremendous respect. And I hear we're doing very well in New York,' he told Sky News.
'I hear we're doing very well in New York,' former President Donald Trump said when asked why he was visiting Ireland rather than attending his trial in New York
It was his first commentary on how his legal team was faring in the courtroom, although he has blasted the the case as a 'hoax' online and denied magazine writer E. Jean Carroll's accusations against him.
Tacopina said the sole witness he had intended to call, an expert witness, wouldn't be there due to a medical problem.
Trump's appraisal came on a day when lawyers for Carroll played the infamous 'Access Hollywood' tape,
