Key Trump trial coincides with GOP Iowa caucus date: legal analyst

The scheduling of Iowa's 2024 Republican caucus is set to coincide with the beginning of an important trial against Donald Trump, according to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

The Republican Party of Iowa announced on Saturday that the date for the 2024 GOP Iowa caucus has been set for Jan. 15, 2024. Iowa GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann said the GOP in the state remains "committed to maintaining Iowa's cherished First-in-the-Nation Caucuses," and to "defeating Joe Biden" in 2024.

The state's Republican party also posted the announcement on Twitter.

Rubin pointed out in a post of her own that the Jan. 15 date coincides with the date of E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial.

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"You know what else is that day?" she asked. The beginning of Carroll's "second defamation trial against Donald Trump for statements he made about her in June 2019." She specified the defamation case is the same one in which the judge recently "rejected Trump's summary judgment motion," and in which "Trump countersued Carroll."

Carroll previously won $5 million when Trump was found liable for sexually abusing the writer. The jury stopped short of finding Trump liable for raping her.