Trump's Lawyers Claim LinkedIn Co-Founder Funded E. Jean Carroll's Rape-Defamation Case.

Lawyers for Donald Trump accused E. Jean Carroll's legal team of failing to disclose that LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman helped fund her rape-defamation case against the former president. Hoffman was the "primary backer" of the nonprofit group that provided additional funding for Carroll's legal fees. Trump's lawyers asked the judge to partially reopen the evidence-sharing stage of the case and delay the trial or instruct the jury to note Carroll's "willful defiance of her discovery obligations." Carroll's lawyer called the efforts to disrupt the trial "baseless."