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Politics
Areeba Shah

Expert: Next Trump trial may be "fatal"

A federal judge on Monday denied former President Donald Trump's request to delay a trial in the lawsuit brought by by author E. Jean Carroll, who alleged that Trump raped her at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a letter last week to postpone the trial, arguing that his client should be allowed a "cooling off" period after his recent indictment by a Manhattan grand jury in connection with an alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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