Trump asks judge to cut the $83.3 million penalty in E. Jean Carroll case or grant him a new trial

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) In a longshot bid, former President Donald Trump is asking the judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him to significantly reduce the $83.3 million jury award or grant a new trial.

Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial.

In court filings Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers said Kaplan erred when he stopped Trump from testifying about “his own state of mind” and when he gave an “erroneous jury instruction on the definition of common-law malice.” Trump’s lawyers said the jury should have been told they needed to find that it was Trump’s “sole, exclusive desire to harm” Carroll.

“This Court’s erroneous decision to dramatically limit the scope of President Trump’s testimony almost certainly influenced the jury’s verdict, and thus a new trial is warranted,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-judge-cut-83-201904545.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

[C_U_L8R]

1. The clock is ticking, Donald

Don't you have anything better to do? Your estate is going to go on the block, and it's all your fault.

[Best_man23]

2. Go ahead, Inmate P01135809

Wish in one hand, hold your diaper in the other, let's see which one fills first.

[PJMcK]

3. Ha!

Loser.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Translated:

Judge Kaplan refused to allow Trump to use his trial courtroom to make a political speech. Which was the right call.

[3Hotdogs]

5. I this case, I agree with Trump. $83,332,299, would be more fair and reasonable.

[Chainfire]

6. He believes he only needs to delay until November, then as dictator, on the first day, he can make all of that silly

shit go away, along with all of his other enemies. Trump's "state of mind" was what it has always been; cheat, lie and steal in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. That is just good business, not a crime...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Habba filed a "Request for Temporary Administrative Stay of Execution Until 3 Business Days

TFG cannot post a bond and Habba is desperate to get a delay

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Judge Kaplan rejects Habba's request to delay TFG's posting of bond in E. Jean Carroll case.

This ruling made me smile

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