E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against the former president will begin later this month, despite Trump's attempts to postpone it.
over allegations that he defamed her character when he denied sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York City in the mid-1990s, including insulting her appearance. The trial will begin on April 25 despite the Trump legal team's best efforts to postpone it.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at an event at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 4, 2023. Despite his best efforts, Trump's defamation trial in New York has not been postponed, and will still begin on April 25, 2023.
"There is no justification for an adjournment. This case is entirely unrelated to the state prosecution," Kaplan wrote in his opinion statement, Rubin tweeted."The suggestion that the recent media coverage of the New York indictment – coverage significantly invited or provoked by Mr. Trump's own actions – would preclude selection of a fair and impartial jury on April 25 is pure speculation.
But just in case we weren't sure what he is alluding to, Judge Kaplan drops a footnote making it plain. Trump is subject to multiple, ongoing criminal & civil investigations, including two by the Special Counsel, one in Fulton County, & the NYAG's civil fraud case. 5/
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