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Donald Trump lied to the judge overseeing his defamation case against writer E. Jean Carroll about his reason for needing to push the trial back a week, according to Carroll’s attorney.
The former president had told Judge Lewis Kaplan he needed the postponement to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, who passed away earlier this week. His lawyer, Alina Habba, argued in a last-minute letter to the judge Friday that Trump needed to spend next Wednesday and Thursday with his family in Florida.
But in a letter addressed to Judge Kaplan on Saturday, Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation) said “a campaign event featuring Mr. Trump has been scheduled” in New Hampshire on Wednesday, one of the days he claimed to need to be with family. The letter also noted that “there was no mention made of any scheduling conflict in connection with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign” in his postponement request to the judge.