Trump Request To Put Defamation Trial On Hold Rejected

President Donald Trump’s request to delay proceedings in an upcoming defamation trial was denied Thursday.

Last week, Trump’s attorneys requested for a 90-day keep within the trial in a lawsuit introduced by author E. Jean Carroll. The trial will start Jan. 16.

The request from Trump’s group got here after the court docket mentioned he waited too lengthy to say presidential immunity as a protection. The former president’s attorneys argued Trump wanted extra time to think about appellate choices.

Carroll filed the lawsuit over “series of false and defamatory statements” Trump made about her whereas he was president, together with denying that he as soon as sexually assaulted her and suggesting she made up the assault to advertise a e-book.