Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a motion to support a new trial after he was found liable for the sexual assault of writer E. Jean Carroll.
In a seven-page motion, attorneys for Trump, including Joe Tacopina, argued Trump deserves a new trial because he was ordered to pay damages despite a jury finding that he was not liable for Carroll's rape.
"Here, Plaintiff was not raped, was not diagnosed with any injury, and Plaintiff does not even argue that the battery had an effect on her career," the attorneys wrote. "Consequently, the Jury's $2 million award was clearly motivated by sympathy rather than by evidence of harm, and the Court should grant a new trial as to compensatory damages for the battery claim, or grant a remittitur of such award to an amount no more than $400,000."
But at one point in the motion, the attorneys conceded that Trump may have groped Carroll.
"The purported sexual abuse found by the Jury could have only included alleged groping of Plaintiff's intimate parts through clothing, which is clearly not rape," the motion said.
Read the entire motion here.
