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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawyers-trial/index.html
Trump asks to delay sexual assault trial following historic indictment

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a judge to delay the start of a sexual assault and defamation trial for one month to allow a “cooling off” period following the historic indictment charging Trump with falsifying business records.

Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Trump, asked the judge overseeing the battery and defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll to delay the trial until the end of May. The trial is scheduled to start on April 25.

Tacopina said the pool of potential jurors will have the criminal charges “top of mind” when they are called due to intense media coverage and that could taint the jury pool. Trump was charged with falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels to stop her from going public about a past affair days before the 2016 presidential election. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges.

“To be sure, President Trump is a persistent subject of media coverage. But the present situation is unique because, as stated above, the recent coverage pertains to alleged sexual misconduct, the same issue at the heart of this litigation,” Tacopina said in his letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan.

Trump has denied the affair with Daniels. He has also denied sexually assaulting Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. She first sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied the rape, said “she’s not my type” and alleged she made the claim to boost sales of her book.

I felt like I was being singled out because of his tone from after I told him I could not find it. He tried to make it clear again where it is at, and then he asked me if I wanted him to take a look for me (because he buys tons of food for the family), I let him take a look in the fridge and he pointed out to where I could find it (he asked me another question before so), and I felt very embarrassed and treated like a child, and I told him that he prioritizes himself and not me. I felt like I was the one being the asshole because I threatened to call my biological father (47M - American of Jordanian descent) over the situation, and he did return the call and told me, "It's how guys talk," and started to ask me questions as to whether my stepdad is a "real man" or a "feminine gay guy" or "transgender". I felt pressured to answer, I hung up on him, I did not return his call the first time but I did the second. I also forced my stepdad to talk to my own dad, and he said he did not want to. Admittedly, I yelled at him, and he told me to "stop talking to that way" (in his stereotypical tough-guy tone). I slammed my right foot on the ground, but then my dad wanted a private talk with me outside.

My stepdad returned to the TV and was watching romantic drama, and he was also on the phone with someone. He said, when my mother (47M - Armenian-American of Lebanese birth) comes home from work, have her talk to him. My stepdad was the one person bringing up a lot of these situations from the past (and the recent past, and the very far past) about how I prejudged his Christian faith because of his attitude towards not only me, but also my own mother and my brother. At first he banned my brother from ever being exposed to the word "gay", and he also had very questionable views on gay people and the colors purple and pink (and my mom also has questionable views on trans people - so this is a norm in both my immediate and extended families).