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Trump heads into Carroll trial with the worst kind of timing
The E. Jean Carroll civil trial was set to begin the next day, and the date landed like a brick through Trump’s campaign window. The case was poised to put rape and defamation allegations back on the front page while he was already juggling criminal exposure elsewhere. His effort to delay the proceeding had already been rejected, and the judge’s refusal to indulge more stalling made the whole thing look like a legal trap he helped build.