Left: Reid Hoffman. Right: Donald Trump
Left: Reid Hoffman. Right: Donald Trump.
  • Trump's lawyers asked to delay the E. Jean Carroll battery and defamation trial a month on Thursday.
  • They said they want to probe a nonprofit backed by Hoffman that gave money to Carroll's defense.
  • The judge ruled to reopen discovery but not to postpone the trial's April 25 start date.

For the second time in three days, lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked to delay his rape claim trial for a month — this time to probe a nonprofit that they paint in court papers as bankrolling his accuser E. Jean Carroll's litigation.