Trump Lawyer Begs For Mercy Over Paying E. Jean Carroll

Who knew that Alina Habba was still employed by Trump after all of the money she cost him? More stalling and delays from team Trump trying to avoid having to come up with the money in the two civil cases he just lost. This Tuesday, Trump's lawyers asked the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case to either reduce the penalty he owes, or give him a new trial:

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.

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