A federal judge in New York scheduled writer E. Jean Carroll’s remaining defamation lawsuit against former president Donald Trump for trial in January, adding onto the long list of legal perils the 2024 candidate is facing in the election year.
The judge wrote in a brief order that unless the case has been “entirely disposed of” by then, the trial will begin on Jan. 15, 2024.
In May, a Manhattan jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and awarded her a total of about $5 million in damages — $2 million in damages for her civil battery claim and nearly $3 million for successfully proving her defamation claim against the former president.
The case scheduled for next year is a separate, earlier defamation suit against Trump dating back to 2019. Carroll filed this first lawsuit for the comments then-President Trump made when she first publicly accused him of the assault.
But the Carroll defamation suit is just a speck in a long list of legal troubles and lawsuits, many serious, that Trump is facing heading into the election.
Last week, of course, a federal grand jury indicted Trump for his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago in connection with the Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation.
On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to mishandling of classified documents, obstructing justice and making false statements, becoming the first ever former U.S. president to be criminally charged by the government.
The special counsel is also conducting a separate inquiry into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. No charges have been filed in this case, but it appears to be continuing to move forward.
Smith is not the only one looking into him.
In April, Trump was charged with 34 felony counts in connection with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the hush money Trump allegedly paid porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts in that New York case.
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September against Trump, three of his adult children and his company, alleging they engaged in a decadelong scheme to inflate the value of their assets and company by billions of dollars.
And in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has also been investigating Trump and his allies’ efforts to subvert that state’s 2020 presidential election results. No charges have been filed in this case either. Willis had suggested that any indictment would come later in 2023.
He has the NY AG trial for fraudulently valuing his property in October.
The E. Jean Carroll trial on January 15, 2024.
Federal class action for promoting a pyramid scheme on January 29, 2024.
NY criminal case for paying off a porn star and hiding it on March 24, 2024.
The Mar a Lago classified documents case has not been set for trial yet.
He has not yet been indicted on charges of tampering with the Georgia election yet and has not yet been indicted on federal charges related to J6 yet.
He has a full calendar coming up.
Nice to see piling on and no one deserves it better than TFG even though I suppose it may help him make the case for continuances, delaying until after the 2024 election in the hope of winning POTUS and taking his revenge.
And, baring a catastrophic medical event, I am absolutely convinced he will be the GOP nominee: Many in Republican leadership may believe they can’t win with Trump but truthfully they can’t win without him – e.g., Trump holds big lead over field – so their only path is to stick with him and make it increasingly difficult for Democrats to vote in swing states while sewing (sic) the field with bogus third party ‘moderate’ candidates, a tactic that cryptoGOP/oligarch-financed groups like No Labels and Third Way will doubtlessly assist.
I live in a fairly safe blue state but already am planning my support directions for the year ahead and that includes other states; we’ll win this but taking nothing for granted.
A few more indictments drop and I don’t see how he’ll have time to do any damn thing.
IANAL but my legal advice to 45 is
STFU
absolutely
and fvck anyone who is trying to primary uncle joe