A federal judge in New York dealt former President Donald Trump’s legal effort a blow by rejecting his request for a new trial and upholding a $5 million jury verdict in a civil case brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday denied Mr. Trump’s motion for a new trial or to decrease the jury’s award of $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Carroll, who accused the former president of sexual assault and defamation.
