A judge rejected Donald Trump’s request to bring counterclaims against New York advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who sued the former president for defamation after he denied raping her two decades ago.
In a ruling Friday in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump had already delayed the 2019 case multiple times and that his claim against Carroll was a “futile” and “bad faith” attempt to delay it further.
“The defendant’s litigation tactics, whatever their intent, have delayed the case to an extent that readily could have been far less,” Kaplan wrote. “Granting leave to amend without considering the futility of the proposed amendment needlessly would make a regrettable situation worse by opening new avenues for significant further delay.”
