This is a tactic by Trump’s lawyers to delay the trial. Carroll’s lawyers asked for his DNA repeatedly over the last 3 years. No when the trial is finally set for April, Trump’s lawyers reverse course and say they’ll offer the DNA in exchange for an appendix to the DNA test done on the dress. Carroll was wearing the night of the attack.
The judge is pissed. This was a deliberate strategy to (1) make it look like Carroll’s lawyers had refused to the DNA because Carroll’s lawyers thought it would exonerate Trump and (2) If accepted force yet another delay of several months because DNA testing is not fast. Plus all of the shenanigans of adding another expert witness.
It is good to see the judge is not putting up with this crap
The patently untimely request for the appendix thus reflects either a tactical shift or just an afterthought. One possible explanation is that it is an attempt to reverse a deliberate tactical decision by Mr. Trump’s counsel not to raise the question of the appendix over the past three years, a decision perhaps the product of a belief that asking for the appendix might well have resulted in renewed demands for Mr. Trump’s DNA. Another possible explanation is a negligent failure to read the report with any care over the entire three-year period and thus the failure to notice the lack of the appendix. But whatever the explanation, the effort comes too late.
