No word on if he got that shiny shoe polish off his face yet.

Donald Trump spent two hours overnight posting smears and denials against author E. Jean Carroll ahead of his possible testimony in a defamation trial.

Hours before the trial was set to resume Thursday to determine whether Donald Trump must pay additional damages for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, the former president made three dozen posts on his social media network about Carroll, a former advice columnist who accused Trump of raping her decades ago.

The posts include several screenshots of Carroll’s old tweets in which she discusses sex, as well as stories from right-wing outlets that paint Carroll in a negative light. Trump also made multiple posts in which he rails against Carroll and the trial, describing it as a “Witch Hunt” and accusing “DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES” of forcing the accusations into the public eye.

Trump ended by lamenting that he was heading back to New York for the trial after his “spectacular” last two weeks winning the Iowa GOP presidential caucuses and the New Hampshire GOP presidential primary. As he has in the past, he denied even knowing Carroll.

“Until the filing of this ridiculous lawsuit against me, I knew nothing about this woman, never heard of her, never touched her, had nothing to do with her,” Trump wrote in one post.

A jury in a separate civil case last year found that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll and owed her $5 million in damages. The trial that started Tuesday is focused on whether the former president owes Carroll additional damages for separate comments he made about her.

Kaplan found in a summary judgment motion in September that Trump is liable in the remaining case, sharply narrowing what the jury in the pending case can consider.

Kaplan — who also repeatedly admonished Trump lawyer Alina Habba for not following courtroom rules and basic trial procedure — first told the former president to exhibit appropriate trial decorum during late morning.

“I’m just going to ask that Mr. Trump take special care to keep his voice down when he’s conferring with counsel so that the jury does not overhear it,” Kaplan, who has senior status in the Southern District of New York and has been on the bench about three decades, said outside the presence of jurors.

After Trump’s blowup later with Kaplan, there were no further admonishments, but the former president continued to look visibly irritated as objection rulings went against Habba during the lawyer’s cross-examination of Carroll.

Meanwhile; In other republican rapist news

House Ethics probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz heats up, investigators are zeroing in on the sex trafficking allegations.

ABC News first reported on Tuesday that the Ethics Committee had reached out to multiple new witnesses, as well as witnesses in the DOJ’s investigation. (That investigation had centered on the sex trafficking allegations but also included other potential crimes, including public corruption and campaign finance violations).

The House Ethics probe is still being conducted on a staff level and has not been elevated to the full committee, according to two sources familiar with the matter. But depending on how the current probe goes, the committee could vote to authorize an Investigative Subcommittee to more fully look into the allegations soon.

Shortly before the House voted to expel Santos, the committee started to ramp up their outreach to witnesses in the Gaetz probe.

When asked about the Ethics panel investigating him, Gaetz told reporters at the time “oh please.”

“I wish them luck,” he said.

Gaetz later took to the House floor to defend Santos—or, at least, the principle of keeping Santos in Congress.

“I rise not to defend George Santos, whoever he is, but to defend the very precedent my colleagues are willing to shatter,” Gaetz said on the floor.

“The fact the Ethics Committee has done this incredible violation of precedent will do grave damage to this institution for many years to come because now there’s no requirement of any conviction,” he said.

Shortly after publication, Gaetz issued a statement.

“These allegations are not true,” he said. “They’ve never been true. The people who have made these allegations have been exposed, indicted, and in some cases, imprisoned.”

But that last claim does not apply to everyone who has made these allegations. The final part—about people being indicted and imprisoned—likely refers to just two people specifically: Joel Greenberg and Stephen Alford.

Greenberg, a former and longtime close friend of Gaetz’s, confessed and was convicted of multiple charges related to the alleged sex ring, including having sex with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the Gaetz investigation.

Alford was indicted and later convicted for fraud after promising Gaetz that he could secure a presidential pardon for the alleged crimes, in exchange for a $25 million payment to—bizarrely—help spring an American hostage held in Iran and long presumed dead.

Last spring, not long after the Ethics Committee re-opened its probe, Florida lobbyist and Gaetz ally Chris Dorworth filed a sweeping RICO suit against Greenberg, his family, and the former teen, whom he accused of defaming him for his alleged role in sex parties. In response, the former teen stood her ground, accusing Dorworth of raping and trafficking her.