Yea?
Except that the guy HAS been in New York City for OTHER events , including the Attorney General’s office for 7 hours of questioning….
Trump damn well KNOWS that him doing a ‘no show’ WILL drop media coverage for the trial and allow him to probably get a better settlement and move on….
Will the judge go along?
One doubts that this will work in the New York Attorney General’s $250 Million case….
So?
I’m sure he’ll try to settle THAT one also……
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.
For Mr. Trump to appear at the federal courthouse, Mr. Tacopina told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, his movements would need to be coordinated each day that he was present by a Secret Service advance team hours beforehand. The team would then develop a tactical plan…..