Donald Trump’s civil defamation case against E. Jean Carroll was postponed this week after one juror and a parent of one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in federal court in Manhattan sent one of the nine jurors to get a COVID-19 test after the juror reported feeling “hot and nauseous.”
Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba also said she developed a fever after being exposed to COVID over the weekend.
Habba requested Kaplan allow Trump to testify on Wednesday, so that he could be present in New Hampshire for that state’s Republican presidential primary.
“We think we should finish tomorrow,” Kaplan said. “Circumstances may result in your getting what you ask for, and maybe not.”
The trial alleges Trump denied Carroll’s claim in 2019 that the former president raped her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
