A judge has rejected Donald Trump’s request to delay his upcoming civil rape trial, admonishing him for being partly to blame for bringing attention to his legal troubles.
Lawyers for Trump sought a one-month postponement of the rape case - brought by author E. Jean Carroll - to be held in federal court in New York on April 25 as a ‘cooling off’ period following his arraignment on separate criminal charges.
They claimed that the adverse publicity surrounding the arraignment on April 4 for falsifying business records hampered Trump’s ability to get a fair trial.
But Judge Lewis Kaplan flatly rejected the idea and said that ‘it does not sit well’ for Trump to ‘promote pretrial publicity and then claim the coverage he promoted was prejudicial to him.'
The decision to deny any delay comes days after DailyMail.com learned that lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump o f raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990's, secretly staged a test trial in a Manhattan hotel to determine how their upcoming civil case will play out with everyday New Yorkers.