Trump insists on postponement of Carroll trial and argues Democratic financing

The former president’s lawyers donald trump They asked again this Thursday to postpone the trial against him for defamation of the author E.Jean Carrollthis time with the argument that a businessman donating the Democratic Party has financed part of the complainant’s legal expenses.

In a letter to the judge lewis kaplanThe lawyer Alina Habba said that Carroll has recently disclosed that his defense received funding from an NGO from reid hoffman -the founder of LinkedIn– something that is not clear that affects the case but will predictably contribute to the allegations of political persecution of the ex-president.

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The lawyer, who points out that Carroll assured that he did not receive external financing linked to politics, questions precisely whether the lawsuit is a “humbug” what are you looking for “promote a political agenda” and expresses his “worry” for credibility, “the bias and motive of the complainant”.

For this reason, it requests to postpone the process for a month, which is scheduled to start on April 25, and return to the phase of providing evidence to “investigate” the matter, or alternatively that the jury be informed that there has been a “adverse interference”.

Just yesterday, another Trump lawyer asked that the trial be postponed on a different argument, that of bad publicity derived from his indictment in a criminal case in Manhattan for the alleged irregular payments to a porn actress so that she would not harm his electoral candidacy.

Carroll’s defense, for its part, has opposed the two requests and has explained in a motion this Thursday that the author filed her lawsuit and that the financing of the employer’s legal expenses, which she considers “Irrelevant”, was later obtained by his team of lawyers.

The judge has not responded to the requests.

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Carroll, 79, accused Trump of rape in a book and a magazine article in 2019, something he denied by publicly calling her a liar and making derogatory comments about her appearance, after which the author decided to launch a legal battle against him for defamation.

At the end of 2022, Carroll added to that lawsuit a new charge for injuries derived from the alleged violation when a legal period opened in NY to seek justice through civil means in cases related to sexual violence that until then had been prescribed.

Source: Elcomercio

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