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Judge Rejects Trump’s Late DNA Offer in Carroll Case
A federal judge on February 15, 2023, rejected Donald Trump’s February 10 offer to provide a DNA sample in the E. Jean Carroll case and kept the April 25 trial date in place.
Edition · February 15, 2023
The Daily Fuckup — Trump Backfill Edition for February 15, 2023
A bad day for Donald Trump in court: a federal judge swatted down his eleventh-hour DNA gambit in the E. Jean Carroll case, signaling that delay tactics were running out of road.
On February 15, 2023, the Trump legal machine took a measurable hit in federal court when Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to inject DNA evidence into the E. Jean Carroll case. It was not just a procedural loss; it was another reminder that Trump’s team was still trying to turn a simple, looming trial into a swamp of delay, and the judge was having none of it. The result pushed the case closer to an April trial and reinforced the impression that Trump’s legal strategy was built less on winning than on buying time.
Closing take
For Trump, this was the kind of courtroom setback that doesn’t make the loudest headline but does real damage: it narrows the escape routes, speeds the case toward trial, and signals a judge who is done tolerating the usual stall-and-sputter routine. In Trumpworld, that’s not a procedural footnote. It’s a flashing red light.
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