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New York judge: Defamation trial against Trump to start next week

Journalist E Jean Carroll waits to enter a courtroom in 2020 in New York City in the United States [Seth Wenig/The Associated Press]

A judge in New York has said that a civil battery and defamation trial against former US President Donald Trump will begin next week as scheduled, rejecting a request from Trump to delay the proceedings.

The decision on Monday came after Trump’s lawyers last week had asked United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan to grant a four-week “cooling-off” period until at least May 23 to give Trump a fair trial.

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