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Judge Lewis Kaplan told Donald Trump on Sunday that he could have the leeway to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral but that he won’t allow for the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial to be delayed. Trump tried to delay the proceedings this week, citing funeral plans for Melania Trump’s recently deceased mother. But, according to E. Jean Carroll and her lawyers, one of the days that Trump asked off wasn’t for a funeral but for a rally in New Hampshire. The trial date for the case has been set for months. “The court, for its part, saw through that, in no small part because it later learned Trump sc…

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