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Left: Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll arrives to federal court in New York, Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig). Right: Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at the South Texas International Airport, Nov. 19, 2023, in Edinburg, Texas (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File). Inset: Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, speaks to the media outside the New York City courthouse on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in a lawsuit accusing him of fraudulently inflating his net worth in financial statements to lenders and others (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey).

The judge overseeing the defamation case against Donald Trump has provided a withering takedown of the former president — and his lawyer Alina Habba — in a ruling explaining the decision not to declare a mistrial.

In a 30-page opinion issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan took the chance to explain why he had previously denied two mistrial requests by Habba over the course of writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump over defamatory statements he made after she went public with her sexual assault accusations against him. That defamation case resulted in an $83 million verdict for Carroll, who had also successfully sued Trump for sexual abuse and was awarded $5 million for his 1990s assault of her in a New York department store dressing room.

Kaplan said that the purpose of his opinion was to provide details as to why he denied two mistrial requests — one oral, one written — from Habba during the defamation trial.

“The Court immediately denied it, partly because it was untimely (in light of defendant’s awareness of the essential facts for nearly a year before trial) but, more importantly, because the motion made no sense,” Kaplan said of Habba’s oral mistrial motion. “Indeed, granting a mistrial would have been entirely pointless.”

Reminding the parties that in this context, a mistrial is “[a] trial that the judge brings to an end without a determination on the merits because of a procedural error or serious misconduct occurring during the proceedings,” Kaplan said that declaring a mistrial in this case “would not have remedied an improper disposal of electronic communications, if any there was.”

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