- Donald Trump requested the trial date for E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial be postponed.
- He mentioned he could be touring on Wednesday to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
- His marketing campaign web site exhibits he’ll be in New Hampshire at a marketing campaign rally that night.
Donald Trump requested a choose to postpone his trial to journey for his mother-in-law’s funeral however failed to say that he was scheduled to attend a marketing campaign rally, too.
Based on courtroom paperwork reviewed by Enterprise Insider, attorneys for Trump requested Friday that Decide Lewis Kaplan postpone the trial date for E. Jean Carroll’s defamation go well with due to the sudden dying of Amalija Knavs, the mom of his spouse Melania Trump, final week. The trial was set to start this Wednesday.
Based on his lawyer, Alina Habba, Trump couldn’t attend the trial in New York on Wednesday and Thursday as a result of he could be touring to Florida to attend the funeral. Per the letter, Trump’s staff requested that the trial be postponed till the next week.
Kaplan denied the request afterward Friday, saying that whereas the courtroom “gives its condolences” to the Trump household, the trial would proceed as scheduled. Trump shouldn’t be required to be on the trial, as Kaplan identified, however the former President had expressed curiosity in attending.
“Mr. Trump is free to attend the trial, the funeral, or all components or each, as he needs,” Kaplan wrote.
Nonetheless, a letter despatched by attorneys for Carroll on Saturday identified that will not have been the entire story. Whereas Trump informed the choose he could be “touring to be along with his household,” Carroll’s attorneys identified that Trump had a marketing campaign rally scheduled in New Hampshire the identical day.
“There was no point out manufactured from any scheduling battle in reference to Mr. Trump’s presidential marketing campaign,” attorneys for Carroll wrote.
Trump’s marketing campaign web site exhibits the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, occasion scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. Japanese Time. It’s unclear if he nonetheless plans to attend the occasion, however it’s nonetheless potential for the general public to register for tickets as of Saturday night. The funeral is scheduled for Thursday, which means it might be potential to attend all three occasions — on a good schedule.
On Reality Social, Trump railed towards the choose overseeing the defamation case for not suspending the trial, calling him a “unhealthy particular person and a good worse Decide.”
“Crazed, Trump hating Decide, Lewis Kaplan … was requested if he might delay this Rigged Political Rip-off for sooner or later in order that I might attend the FUNERAL OF MY BELOVED MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH MY WIFE, THE FORMER (AND NEXT!) FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES — AND HE SAID NO,” Trump wrote on Saturday.
In the identical Reality Social publish, Trump additionally accused Kaplan of purposely scheduling the trial in the midst of the New Hampshire major however didn’t tackle the Carroll letter.
A spokesperson for Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
