A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s motion for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation and sexual abuse case Wednesday, months after a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
The judge also rejected Donald Trump’s request to reduce the $5 million payout a jury awarded to ... [+]
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said the verdict the jury reached in May was not a “miscarriage of justice” and the jury did not reach a “seriously erroneous result.”
Kaplan also rejected Trump’s request to reduce the $5 million payout a jury awarded Carroll in May.
Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and later accused him of defaming her by disparagingly describing her as a “nut job” and saying the incident was made up on his Truth Social platform.
In June, the former president requested a new trial, claiming that $2 million he was ordered to pay to Carroll in compensatory damages for sexual abuse—part of the $5 million—was “grossly excessive” because the jury ruled the incident between the two was sexual abuse, not rape.
Trump also previously said the award Carroll was given for defamation based on “pure speculation.”
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