Trump Asks for New Carroll Trial or $4 Million Damages Cut (1)

Former President Donald Trump asked a judge to grant him a new trial in the sexual assault and defamation suit filed against him by New York author E. Jean Carroll — or to sharply reduce the $5 million damages he was ordered to pay.

In a Thursday filing in Manhattan federal court, Trump said the May 9 jury award was “grossly excessive” because the panel found him liable for sexual abuse but not rape.

“Such abuse could have included groping Plaintiff’s breasts through clothing or similar conduct, which is a far cry from rape,” Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina argued in ...