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The court case between Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll has been postponed for the time being – it concerns claims for damages against the ex-president.
New York - Donald Trump's compensation trial is expected to continue on Wednesday (January 24) after being adjourned on Monday morning.
A juror called in sick and a Trump lawyer said she may have been infected with the coronavirus.
It was unclear whether the trial would resume Tuesday or at a later date.
Trump's legal team asked that the former president and current Republican candidate be allowed to testify on Wednesday because of his presidential campaign's demands.
Lawyer Alina Habba: Trump “must be in New Hampshire”
“Tomorrow is the New Hampshire primary, and he has to be in New Hampshire,” said attorney Alina Habba.
It was not clear whether the postponement to Wednesday was due to Covid, other health concerns or Habba's request.
Trump has said he will testify in the case.
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U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan had no comment on Trump's request for a reschedule when he called the remaining eight jurors into court to inform them of their colleague's health problem.
“Enjoy your morning coffee and hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow,” the judge told the panel.
Donald Trump on the way to court in New York © Charly Triballeau/AFP
The libel lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll has been in Manhattan federal court for about a week and was scheduled to conclude this week.
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On Monday morning, one juror said he wasn't feeling well.
The judge said he ordered that juror to go home and take a coronavirus test.
At the same time, Habba said she was not feeling well and had a fever over the weekend.
She said she took a coronavirus test that came back negative.
Donald Trump continues to insult E. Jean Carroll
Trump, who was present in the courtroom before the hearing was postponed, is being sued for damages over derogatory comments he made as president in 2019 after Carroll went public with a decades-old sexual assault allegation.
He left New Hampshire, where he was campaigning ahead of Tuesday's primary, and had indicated he would testify in the case.
The nine-member jury is weighing what damages should be paid to Trump, who was convicted of defamation in a summary trial in September.
He called Carroll a liar and claimed she couldn't have been raped by him because he wasn't romantically interested in her, which he continues to claim.
In a separate lawsuit last year, Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages against Trump after he was found liable for sexual abuse and another series of defamatory statements in 2022.
Trump has appealed this ruling.
On television and social media, Trump continues to insult Carroll, calling her a liar and mentally ill.
Mark Berman in Washington and Wesley Parnell in New York contributed to this report.
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Shayna Jacobs
is a federal courts and law enforcement reporter on the national security team at The Washington Post, where she covers the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Devlin Barrett
writes about the FBI and the Justice Department and is the author of October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election.
He was part of the reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 and 2022.
In 2017, he was a co-finalist for the Pulitzer for Feature Writing and the Pulitzer for International Reporting.
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