Trump’s Demand for New Trial in E. Jean Carroll Case Fails

Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the civil case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll was rejected by a federal judge Wednesday after a jury in May found him liable for sexually abusing her.

The decision also noted that while the jury found that “Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law,” that does not mean “that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that,” the decision says.

In rejecting the former president’s bid for a new trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said he had considered Trump’s arguments “and found them all unpersuasive.”

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