Trump claimed jurors would need a 'cooling off' period given the media circus around his indictment, but the judge reminded him he'd been the ringmaster. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
against him, set for April 25, in a ruling Monday that knocked down the former president's argument at every turn. If anything, the ruling served as a reminder of how much legal jeopardy Trump is in on several fronts.
The judge also rejected Trump’s offensive comparison of the alleged facts of his pending criminal case to the alleged facts in Carroll's suit, in support of his"cooling off" request. Trump had tried to compare the allegation that he slept with Daniels and the allegation that he raped Carroll as both involving alleged sexual misconduct.
In any event, Kaplan made clear that the questioning of prospective jurors about their awareness of, as the judge put it, Trump’s “various legal troubles — past, present and perhaps future" — will ensure a fair jury for trial. “Thus,” Kaplan wrote, “the effect of granting Mr. Trump’s requested postponement would not be to take the New York State charges off the table with respect to jury selection. It would be only to postpone that discussion.
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