Judge Lewis Kaplan, the federal judge presiding over the defamation case E. Jean Carroll brought against Donald Trump, rejected, and indeed derided, Donald Trump’s assertion that he needs a delay in the trial for a “cooling off period” as a result of the publicity surrounding his indictment by a New York grand jury for 34 felony crimes. Judge Kaplan made clear that Donald Trump himself was responsible for much of the publicity surrounding his indictment, arrest and arraignment, so he can not now be heard to need a trial continuance due to the very publicity he created.
