Trump’s defense seeks mistrial in rape trial, judge rejects it

The defense team for former U.S. President Donald Trump today asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to declare a mistrial against his client, accused of rape and defamation by author E. Jean Carrollwhich was rejected by the judge. In Monday’s session, Kaplan has rejected the motion filed by Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina, who argued that the judge has made “unfair and prejudicial widespread” decisions against him during the process, journalists from specialized media reported from the courtroom.

According to Law and Crime Media, Kaplan has merely said that he was rejecting the request that had been left on his desk this morning. In a letter to the judge, Tacopina requests that in the event he does not dismiss the complaint, he at least and in the alternative correct his statements at any and all points where the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case before the jury and that he “allow the defendant’s counsel greater ability to cross-examine the plaintiff and her witnesses.”

According to counsel, Kaplan’s interventions have “bolstered” Carroll’s testimony.who accuses the former president of having cornered and raped her in the fitting room of a luxury department store in 1987. She also sued him for defamation, because when in 2019 Carroll publicly stated that the then president had raped her, he disqualified her by saying that she was not his “type”, that it was all “a joke and a lie” and that what she was looking for was free fame to promote a book.