A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected disgraced former President Trump’s request for a four week “cooling off” period to delay the scheduled April 25th start of the trial in writer E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against the credibly accused rapist. Trump had asked for the pushback after his indictment on 34 felonies for falsifying business records in his 2016 campaign hush money payoffs to pornstar Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, claiming “prospective jurors will have the criminal allegations top of mind” during the civil trial in the Carroll case.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said tough shit, and cited Donald’s interviews since the indictment in rejecting the request. “It does not sit well for Mr. Trump to promote pretrial publicity and then to claim that coverage that he promoted was prejudicial to him and should be taken into account as supporting a further delay. At bottom, Mr. Trump has failed to show that there is anything about the media coverage of his indictment or about the supposed efficacy of a ‘cooling off’ period that would warrant an adjournment of this trial,” Kaplan wrote in his ruling.