Former President Donald Trump won't get another chance to have a new trial in the civil suit with longtime columnist E. Jean Carroll, nor will the $5 million dollars in damages she won be reduced, after federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Trump's bid for a retrial. In May, Trump was found liable for defaming and sexually abusing Carroll, who has long claimed he assaulted her in a department store dressing room in 1996 and subsequently slandered her by publicly refuting her allegations. Since then, Trump has openly denied Caroll's accusations, even filing a counterclaim arguing that she defamed him during a CNN appearance in which she confidently maintained her assertions against him
A lengthy memorandum, which took into account the two separate lawsuits Carroll had filed against the ex-president, acknowledged that the "only point on which Ms. Carroll did not prevail was whether she had proved that Mr. Trump had 'raped' her within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law."
