A Trump Civil Trial Is About to Start. It’s a Nightmare for Him.

the scheduled April 25 trial of the civil assault charges filed against him by E. Jean Carroll. Noting that it was the former president himself who largely “invited or provoked” the publicity that he claimed created a need for delay, Judge Kaplan ordered the trial to proceed as scheduled.Trump now faces the immediate prospect of a face-to-face courtroom battle with a woman he described as a “nut job,” who “enjoyed” being sexually assaulted.

that allows sexual assault victims to file charges after the applicable statute of limitations had otherwise expired.The evidence against the former president in the public record seems strong. First, based upon Carroll’s public interviews, she appears to be a to be an effective advocate who should be a sympathetic witness on her own behalf. In addition, there are a number of witnesses whom Carroll had contemporaneously told about the incident who will corroborate her story.

The other half of Trump’s legal team is Alina Habba, a Florida attorney with little if any actual trial experience. In her most significant litigation experience, Habba represented the former president in a lawsuit he brought against numerous political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and James Comey, for allegedly lying about his ties with Russia in the 2016 campaign.

finding the lawsuit to be one that “no reasonable lawyer would have filed,” brought “in bad faith and for an improper purpose.” In an extraordinary step, he imposed on both Habba and Trump a penalty of $937,989.39.Making the courtroom battle even more unfavorable for Trump will be Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan, an experienced, well-regarded civil rights and commercial litigator, known for her reasoned demeanor and practical approach.

If the strength of the evidence and the uneven lawyer-to-lawyer matchups are not problematic enough for Trump, the federal judge presiding over the case is Lewis Kaplan, who is surely from the Trump perspective among the least favorable Southern District judges to preside over this case. Judge Kaplan is a seasoned and highly regarded judge, whose strict, no-nonsense approach will be much more in sync with Roberta Kaplan than Joe Tacopina.

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