A federal judge denied former President Trump’s bid for a four-week delay in the civil rape and defamation trial brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. Trump's lawyer argued for a “cooling off” period following the former president's recent indictment.
alleges that Trump raped her at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, which Trump has repeatedly denied.by a Manhattan grand jury in a case involving hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign, which drew a surge of media coverage.denying Trump’s request on Monday, Kaplan wrote that “there is no justification for an adjournment.”
Kaplan also rejected the notion that delaying the trial would decrease the possibility of “negative publicity” before the trial. In the request to delay the trial, Tacopina argued that the influx of media coverage of Trump’s indictment and arraignment could taint the jury pool. Kaplan also noted that “at least some portion” of recent media coverage of Trump’s indictment “was of his own doing” and that the alleged sexual conduct at the heart of the Manhattan district attorney’s case, which involves adult film star Stormy Daniels’ allegations that she had an affair with Trump — accusations that Trump denies — and was paid to keep quiet, is “dramatically different” from Carroll’s allegations of rape by the former president.
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