Trump called a judge a ‘bad person’ for not allowing him to travel for a funeral. His calendar says he’s got a campaign event that day.

• Donald Trump requested the trial date for E. Jean Carroll‘s defamation trial be postponed.

• He mentioned he can be touring on Wednesday to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.

• His marketing campaign web site reveals he’ll be in New Hampshire at a marketing campaign rally that night.

Donald Trump requested a choose to postpone his trial to journey for his mother-in-law’s funeral however failed to say that he was scheduled to attend a marketing campaign rally, too.

In accordance with court docket paperwork reviewed by Enterprise Insider, attorneys for Trump requested Friday that Choose Lewis Kaplan postpone the trial date for E. Jean Carroll’s defamation swimsuit due to the sudden loss of life of Amalija Knavs, the mom of his spouse Melania Trump, final week. The trial was set to start this Wednesday.

In accordance with his lawyer, Alina Habba, Trump couldn’t attend the trial in New York on Wednesday and Thursday as a result of he can be touring to Florida to attend the funeral. Per the letter, Trump’s crew requested that the trial be postponed till the next week.

Kaplan denied the request in a while Friday, saying that whereas the court docket “provides its condolences” to the Trump household, the trial would proceed as scheduled. Trump will not be required to be on the trial, as Kaplan identified, however the former President had expressed curiosity in attending.

“Mr. Trump is free to attend the trial, the funeral, or all components or each, as he needs,” Kaplan wrote.

Nevertheless, a letter despatched by attorneys for Carroll on Saturday identified that won’t have been the entire story. Whereas Trump informed the choose he can be “touring to be together with his household,” Carroll’s attorneys identified that Trump had a marketing campaign rally scheduled in New Hampshire the identical day.

“There was no point out manufactured from any scheduling battle in reference to Mr. Trump’s presidential marketing campaign,” attorneys for Carroll wrote.

Trump’s marketing campaign web site reveals the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, occasion scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. Japanese Time. It’s unclear if he nonetheless plans to attend the occasion, however it’s nonetheless attainable for the general public to register for tickets as of Saturday night. The funeral is scheduled for Thursday, that means it may very well be attainable to attend all three occasions — on a decent schedule.

On Fact Social, Trump railed in opposition to the choose overseeing the defamation case for not suspending the trial, calling him a “dangerous particular person and an excellent worse Choose.”

“Crazed, Trump hating Choose, Lewis Kaplan … was requested if he might delay this Rigged Political Rip-off for in the future in order that I might attend the FUNERAL OF MY BELOVED MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH MY WIFE, THE FORMER (AND NEXT!) FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES — AND HE SAID NO,” Trump wrote on Saturday.

In the identical Fact Social publish, Trump additionally accused Kaplan of purposely scheduling the trial in the course of the New Hampshire main however didn’t deal with the Carroll letter.

A spokesperson for Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

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