E Jean Carroll’s second defamation trial against former President Donald Trump has been set just days before Republican primary voters will begin their presidential nomination process in January 2024.
How convenient!
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan set Carroll’s civil defamation trial against the 45th president for January 15, 2024.
Just days before the scheduling, Kaplan allowed Carroll to amend her second defamation lawsuit in order to seek up to $10 million in damages from Trump.
In May, Trump was found liable by a nine-member jury for sexual battery and defaming Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages.
Caroll was awarded $2 million in damages for the sexual battery claim and $3 million for defamation.
However, Carroll’s second lawsuit against Trump stems from his comments regarding her accusations of rape in 2019.
Carroll was allowed to amend her lawsuit to include Trump’s comments on CNN town hall where he said he had “no idea who this woman is,” adding that her allegations are a “fake” and a “made-up story.”
“We maintain that she should not be permitted to retroactively change her legal theory, at the eleventh hour, to avoid the consequences of an adverse finding against her,” Trump attorney Alina Habba said in a statement.
But what makes Carroll’s trial more akin to yet another political attack against Trump is that the fact that the trial is set to begin just days before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Republican primary caucus on January 22, 2024.
The trial date appears strategically set to hurt Trump’s campaign as much as possible.
According to Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak, this trial would “undoubtedly affect the race for the Republican nomination, both by distracting the current frontrunner and by tarnishing him relative to other candidates in the race.”
Trump now faces at least three trials within the next 12 months, including Carroll’s January trial, January 202. A civil lawsuit for fraud against Trump and his company for October 2023, and the criminal trial in March 2024, weeks after the GOP primary’s “Super Tuesday,” stemmed from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the former president’s alleged falsification of business records.
However, the onslaught of political attacks is only helping Trump’s growing support as reports revealed he had raised more than $7 million since Special Counsel Jack Smith announced his indictment last week.
This also happened with Trump’s first indictment when he raised $4 million within the first 24 hours.
These trial appearances may only serve to help Trump’s campaign and grow his popularity.
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