The judge handling author E. Jean Carroll’s latest civil suit against Donald Trump has adjourned the trial until tomorrow, as a juror said he felt unwell and the parents of one of Trump’s lawyers tested positive for COVID-19.

Judge Louis Kaplan in Manhattan said one of 9 jurors he feels feverish and nauseous and told to get tested for COVID.

At the same time, Alina Haba, Trump’s lawyer, testified that she developed a fever over the weekend after having dinner with her parents on Friday. She and fellow lawyer Michael Madaio tested negative for the coronavirus today.

However, the former US president and favorite for the nomination of the Republican Party in the primary elections went this morning local time to the federal court in New York to attend the trial for defamation, a process initiated by the author whom he accused of rape .

On the eve of the primary election in the state of New Hampshire, Donald Trump could testify to defend himself against former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has already succeeded in a civil court against him billionaire in 2023 and the award of 5 million euros in damages for sexual assault in 1996 and defamation.

According to an AFP photojournalist, donald trump left his residence at the trump tower this morning to go to the manhattan courthouse, where his motorcade arrived shortly after.

Despite the first unanimous verdict, in May 2023, Donald Trump continued to defame and insult the author, whom he has described as “crazy”, with a “fake story”, which he has “never seen in his life”.

The second trial arose out of a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll over Donald Trump’s statements in June 2019, when she first accused him of rape in a book.

Then the president of the USA, Trump, had declared that Carol, who “wasn’t to his taste”, invented everything to “sell a new book”. That hearing was delayed, but the second trial began last week.

J. Jean Carroll is seeking $10 million in moral and professional damages.