By extending the deadline for Trump to appear in court, Judge Lewis Kaplan took away Trump’s ability to claim there was bias against him.
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance on Sunday said she feels that the judge presiding over the civil trial against former President Donald Trump did the “smart thing” by calling Trump’s “bluff.”
Vance made the comments on MSNBC while discussing the trial for the lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against Trump. Carroll is suing Trump over allegations that he defamed her character when he denied sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, including insulting her appearance. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection to the rape and defamation allegations made by Carroll in her lawsuit.
According to Vance, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan outplayed Trump, who the former attorney said was trying to set up Kaplan as looking “biased” should the ruling not be in Trump’s favor.
