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- Trump golfed in Ireland rather than attend two significant Manhattan court cases docketed Thursday.
- He continued to skip the E. Jean Carroll rape-defamation case now wrapping in federal court.
- He also waived his appearance at a hearing in his 'hush-money' case in state criminal court.
Donald Trump played golf in County Clare, Ireland on Thursday, rather than fight civil rape accusations and criminal document-fraud charges in separate courtrooms in rainy Manhattan.
The former president had empty seats awaiting him, should he have chosen to sit in them, at defense tables in two courthouses just one block apart.