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8:09Now PlayingDonald Trump desperately tries to avoid facing his accuser, E. Jean Carroll, in person at trial with every excuse to not attend in New York City following the indictment. John Iadarola and Jessica Burbank break it down on The Damage Report.
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Trump Says He May Skip Rape Case to Spare New Yorkers Traffic Hassles
"Former President Donald J. Trump wants to come to a Manhattan trial over allegations he raped a woman nearly 30 years ago, but he may stay away to spare New Yorkers the traffic jams, blocked streets and high security that would inevitably accompany him, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump “wishes to appear,” the lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, wrote to the judge overseeing the trial of a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr. Trump of attacking her in a Fifth Avenue department store dressing room in the mid 1990s. The trial is scheduled to start on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lower Manhattan.
But Mr. Tacopina noted that when Trump appeared in the nearby Manhattan State Supreme Court for his recent arraignment on unrelated criminal charges, Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive was shut down for a significant period while Mr. Trump traveled to the courthouse. Streets within a three-block radius of the court were blocked off while he was there, and he was constantly accompanied by about a dozen Secret Service agents."
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