(New York, NY) — A federal judge is knocking down former President Trump’s attempt to get a four-week-delay in his civil rape and defamation trial. His lawyer Joe Tacopina asked district judge Lewis Kaplan last week to postpone the E. Jean Carroll trial, scheduled to begin April 25th. Carroll, a prolific columnist, accuses Trump of raping her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department stores in the 1990s, which Trump denies. Tacopina argued Trump should be allowed a “cooling off” period after his recent indictment by a Manhattan grand jury in another case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
