A federal judge on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s motion for a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll case, which the former president requested on the premise that Ms. Carroll failed to preserve key evidence.
President Trump’s attorneys argued on Jan. 19 that the trial was ruined when Ms. Carroll admitted in court testimony that she had deleted an unknown number of emails and social media messages containing death threats.
Ms. Carroll’s lawyers have made the purported death threats, which they blame on President Trump’s public remarks, a key reason why their client asked the jury to award her tens of millions of dollars in damages….
