如果前总统唐纳德·特朗普拒绝出席下周他被指控的审判诽谤和殴打作家E. Jean Carroll，他的律师想让陪审团知道这是为了减轻纽约市保护他安全的负担。
辩护律师乔·塔科皮纳(Joe Tacopina)周三在一份审前文件中表示，特朗普“希望出庭受审”，但要求法院告知陪审团“与他出庭相关的后勤负担”。
卡罗尔的一名律师斥责了这一请求，在另一封信中写道，“特朗普先生不会以某种形式支持纽约市的观点，以及陪审团应该得到同样的指示，加重了轻信者的轻信。”
卡罗尔的另一名律师罗伯塔·卡普兰(Roberta Kaplan)指出，特朗普最近参加了全国各地的活动，包括一场终极格斗锦标赛，全国步枪协会的一次会议，以及一场作为不同民事案件一部分的证词。
卡普兰说:“周一，他宣布他已经将新罕布什尔州的竞选活动安排在下周四，4月27日——换句话说，在本案的审判过程中。”“如果特朗普先生能想办法参加摔跤锦标赛、政治大会、民事宣誓作证和竞选活动，那么他肯定能克服参加自己的联邦审判的后勤问题。”
这位前总统必须在本周四之前让法庭确定他是否会来。
2023年4月4日，美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普抵达纽约法庭。
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穿着她的西装，十一月带来的卡罗尔声称，当特朗普否认她声称他在20世纪90年代在百货公司更衣室强奸她的时候，他称她为骗子，这是对她的诽谤。根据最近通过的纽约法律，她增加了一项殴打罪，该法律允许性虐待的成年幸存者起诉他们所谓的攻击者，而不管诉讼时效。
上周的一个法官否认了特朗普的企图推迟原定于周二在纽约进行的审判。
特朗普多次否认卡罗尔的指控。
Trump may not appear at his upcoming trial in NYC due to 'logistical burdens,' attorney says
If former President Donald Trump declines to attend his trial next week in which he stands accused ofdefaming and batteringwriter E. Jean Carroll, his attorney wants the jury to know it would be to spare New York City the burden of keeping him safe.
Trump "wishes to appear at trial," defense attorney Joe Tacopina said in a pre-trial filing Wednesday, but asked the court to inform the jury about the "logistical burdens associated with his appearance in a courtroom."
An attorney for Carroll chided the request, writing in a separate letter that "the notion that Mr. Trump would not appear as some sort of favor to the City of New York -- and that the jury should be instructed as much -- taxes the credulity of the credulous."
Another Carroll attorney, Roberta Kaplan, pointed out that Trump has recently attended events around the country including an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, a meeting of the National Rifle Association, and a deposition as part of a different civil case.
"On Monday, he announced that he has scheduled a New Hampshire campaign event for next Thursday, April 27-- in other words, in the middle of the trial in this case," Kaplan said. "If Mr. Trump can find a way to attend wrestling championships, political conventions, civil depositions, and campaign functions, then surely he could surmount the logistics of attending his own federal trial."
The former president has until this Thursday to let the court know for sure whether he's coming.
In her suit,brought in November, Carroll alleges that Trump defamed her by calling her a liar when he denied her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations.
A judge last weekdenied Trump's attemptto delay the start of the trial, which is scheduled to get underway in New York on Tuesday.
Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll's allegations.
