Trump’s push for new sexual abuse trial is ‘magical thinking,’ E Jean Carroll says

The former US president asked for a new trial after the jury awarded Carroll $5m, saying the damages were excessive

Donald Trump's push for a new trial in the civil case in which a Manhattan jury last month found the former US president sexually abused and defamed the writer E Jean Carroll is magical thinking", Carroll's lawyers said on Thursday.

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, on 8 June asked for a new trial after the jury awarded Carroll $5m, saying the damages were excessive because the jury did not find she was raped and because the alleged conduct did not cause her a diagnosed mental injury.