--- title: Donald Trump to Report for Jury Duty Monday description: On Monday, a higher calling will pull Donald Trump from the campaign trail: jury duty. canonical: https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-14T22:36:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:12:13.762Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Could be on a Manhattan Jury og:description: The presidential candidate reports for jury duty Monday og:url: https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7259fa75f42f2adf/69885cc62dce0126629e4d15/donald-trump26.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Could be on a Manhattan Jury twitter:description: The presidential candidate reports for jury duty Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7259fa75f42f2adf/69885cc62dce0126629e4d15/donald-trump26.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Will Report for Jury Duty > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump: 'It's All Entertainment'_  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Aug 14, 2015 10:36 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on July 25, 2015, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on July 25, 2015, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall—AP  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Aug 14, 2015 10:36 PM UTC Donald Trump is [heading back to court](http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/14/politics/trump-jury-duty/index.html). But when he appears at a Manhattan courtroom on Aug. 17, he won’t be on either end of a lawsuit, CNN reports. Instead, he’ll be reporting for [jury duty](http://www.nyjuror.gov/). “Despite running for President and running a massive, multi-billion-dollar company, Mr. Trump will be at jury duty Monday,” Alan Garten, general counsel to the Trump Organization, told the [New York Daily _News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-serve-jury-duty-nyc-week-article-1.2326290) on Friday. According to New York’s [Jury Duty website](http://www.nyjuror.gov/juryQandA.shtml#MustReport), there are no exemptions for presidential candidates or multi-billionaires. The courtroom appearance by Trump, who is [no stranger to litigation](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/us/politics/depositions-show-donald-trump-as-quick-to-exaggerate-and-insult.html), will make him one for six for fulfilling his jury duty summonses. A judge [fined him $250](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-report-jury-duty-5-summonses-article-1.2273062) earlier this year for ignoring every summons for nearly a decade. \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/14/politics/trump-jury-duty/index.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Will Report for Jury Duty","datePublished":"2015-08-14T22:36:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:12:13.762Z","description":"It's not the first time the Republican presidential candidate has been in court","url":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/","keywords":["2016 presidential election","Donald Trump","2016 Campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7259fa75f42f2adf/69885cc62dce0126629e4d15/donald-trump26.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7259fa75f42f2adf/69885cc62dce0126629e4d15/donald-trump26.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Charlie Neibergall—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/","name":"Donald Trump Will Report for Jury Duty"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch: Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump","description":"Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump: 'It's All Entertainment'","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GDh3tmj2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-10T20:23:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GDh3tmj2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/","duration":"PT1M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```