NEW YORK — To get from his last trial, which ended Thursday, to his next, beginning Tuesday, Donald Trump can simply walk down the street.
One case — his civil fraud trial — was in state court. The other — a defamation lawsuit from the writer E. Jean Carroll — is in federal court. But the two courthouses are next to each other in lower Manhattan, and Trump’s quick turnaround from one to the other will highlight the intense schedule of legal obligations he must endure over the next several months as he pursues the Republican nomination for president.
Both cases are civil lawsuits that have infuriated the former president. During closing arguments in the fraud case last week, he sat in the courtroom and berated the judge, who has already ruled that Trump committed business fraud and is now weighing whether to fine him and the Trump Organization hundreds of millions of dollars.
Carroll has drawn similar vitriol from Trump.
In 2019, the longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine publicly accused Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in the 1990s — an account that Trump denied in stark........