Donald Trump's attempt to use his dead mother-in-law's funeral to postpone his $10 million defamation trial was slapped down Tuesday by a testy New York City judge, reports show.
"You asked me for a week's adjournment and I denied it," Judge Lewis Kaplan snapped at Trump's attorney Alina Habba, according to ABC News. "The repetition is not accomplishing anything."
Trump's lawyers wanted to push the trial back a week to allow him to attend the funeral for Melania's mother Amalija Knavs on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
“I am not stopping him from being there,” the judge reportedly said.
“No," Habba replied, "you’re stopping him from being here.”
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While Kaplan denied the adjournment, he has granted Trump a continuance to allow the former president to testify on Monday, the report shows.
E. Jean Carroll's defamation case — in which Trump has already been found liable — was originally slated to end this week.
This is one of two lawsuits the former journalist has filed against Trump, whom she accuses of sexually abusing her in a department store in the early 1990s and defaming her with his denials.
