A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay a civil defamation lawsuit after he disputed author E. Jean Carroll’s allegations that he raped her.
In a 2019 book, Carroll claimed that Trump raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s allegations, leading the author to file a federal defamation lawsuit against the former president in New York.
Trump’s legal team had sought to delay the trial over Carroll’s defamation allegations, arguing that they should delay his trial by a month to provide a longer “cooling off” period after the media buzz surrounding a separate criminal case against Trump brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg….