Trump seeks delay of E. Jean Carroll defamation trial so he can consider appeal to Supreme Court

Former President Trump is seeking to delay next month's defamation trial in the 2019 lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll so he can consider appealing to the Supreme Court.

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to delay his defamation trial set to begin next month in the 2019 lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, so he can consider a potential appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 15 in Manhattan federal court to determine how much in damages he owes to Carroll for calling her a liar and disparaging her when he denied her rape claim.

Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, sued Trump in November 2019 over comments he made shortly after Carroll publicly accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s.

The former president said Carroll was "not my type" and suggested she fabricated her accusation for ulterior and improper purposes, including to increase sales of her then-forthcoming book. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.