A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s claims that the $83.3 million in damages he was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation were excessive and also denied Trump’s request for a new trial.
Judge Lewis Kaplan in a written opinion said Trump’s argument “is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact.”
The judge also wrote that the $65 million in punitive damages awarded by the jury “passes constitutional muster.”
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