Former President Donald Trump is seeking a new trial after a New York jury sided with advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a defamation lawsuit and awarded her $83.3 million in damages.

The nine-person jury awarded the damages to Carroll in January after finding Trump defamed her in 2019 over her claims that he raped her decades before in a fitting room while the two were shopping at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation.

In court documents filed Tuesday, Trump’s legal team said a new trial is warranted because U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, erroneously excluded the former president’s testimony from trial and provided flawed jury instructions on the definition of common-law malice.

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