A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E Jean Carroll that resulted in a $5 million damage award.

Trump had sought a new trial after a New York jury in May found him liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle magazine columnist in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, then defaming her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie."

Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the request, saying, "The jury in this case did not reach 'a seriously erroneous result.'"

"Its verdict is not 'a miscarriage of justice,'" the judge said.