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Judge Lewis Kaplan has denied former President Donald Trump's motion to declare a mistrial and place sanctions in the E. Jean Carroll case, reported MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

The motion was based on the fact that Carroll, a writer who sued Trump for defamation after he disparaged her rape allegations against him as a lie to sell books, deleted some emails she received containing death threats against her, which Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba tried to argue was deliberate misconduct — but Kaplan found nothing of the sort.

"While he still has not entered judgment, Judge Lew Kaplan did just issue an opinion denying Trump's motion for a mistrial and sanctions based on Carroll's purported deletion of emails or Twitter messages containing death threats," wrote Rubin on social media....

Donald Trump and his team did a number of things in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case that made the jury prop up a punitive damages award that otherwise could have been lower, a former prosecutor said on Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports, where she was asked about the recent $83.3 million jury award against the ex-president. Specifically, the host asked about the impacts of Trump's behavior, as well as whether the verdict reflected the jurors' view on "victim shaming."

"I think that is the important point here because this punitive damage is so much larger than the award from the first trial," Vance said. "And this is something that Donald Trump brought on himself."...

Donald Trump on Friday was hit with a near-$90 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case, prompting the internet to react.

The former president was hit with a jury verdict exceeding $80 million for his defamation of the columnist, who was found by a jury to have been sexually assaulted by Trump in the 1990s.

This caused some to joke about where the money might come from....

E. Jean Carroll's massive $83.3 million civil judgment against former President Donald Trump on Friday is a huge blow to the former president — and a real, devastating consequence for the former president spending months repeating the same claims against her already ruled defamatory by a prior jury.

That's the view of former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman, who weighed in on MSNBC that evening.

"It brings me back to an argument that Carroll's attorneys made during closing arguments which was this, this trial is also about something much more profound, whether the rules that apply to everyone else, to you, to me, to Miss Carroll, whether they also apply to Donald Trump, and it feels when I hear that total, $83.3 million in damages, that that was the jury's answer in some ways to that macro question," said anchor Alicia Menendez....

Donald Trump on Friday reacted to the news that he was being ordered to pay more than $80 million in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.

Trump, who testified in the trial but was limited in what he could say because it was solely about determining damages and not liability, said it is "absolutely ridiculous" that he was hit with such a high damages verdict. That amount is on top of the $5 million Trump was previously ordered to pay after the first Carroll trial last year.

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The jury has reached a decision in Donald Trump's second defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll, according to Inner City Press.

Jurors awarded the author and columnist $7.3 million for compensatory damages, $11 million to restore her reputation, and $65 million in punitive damages for defamatory statements Trump made against Carroll while serving as president after she accused him of raping her decades ago in a Manhattan department store dressing room. The total amount is $83.3 million,

CNN called it a "significant victory" for the defamed columnist....