Donald Trump seeks to delay rape accuser’s defamation trial by 4 weeks over media coverage

Trump's lawyers said former US president's right to fair trial required ‘cooling off’ period following recent coverage of his indictment by Manhattan district attorney's office.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump | File Photo: Reuters

New York: Donald Trump has asked a U.S. judge to delay by four weeks a trial scheduled for April 25 over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying he raped her.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyers said the former U.S. president’s right to a fair trial required a “cooling off” period, following the recent “deluge of prejudicial media coverage” of his indictment by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

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