Trump Seeks to Delay Rape Accuser’s Defamation Trial

“Donald Trump has asked a U.S. judge to delay by four weeks a trial scheduled for April 25 over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying he raped her,” Reuters reports.

“In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyers said the former U.S. president’s right to a fair trial required a ‘cooling off’ period, following the recent ‘deluge of prejudicial media coverage’ of his indictment by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.”