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Former President Donald Trump is demanding that he be given a do-over trial in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. According to CNN’s Kara Scannell, “Trump argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan wrongly prohibited him from defending himself during his brief testimony and that warrants a new trial.” In court filings made on Tuesday, attorneys for Trump “said Kaplan erred when he stopped Trump from testifying about ‘his own state of mind’ and when he gave an ‘erroneous jury instruction on the definition of common-law malice.’ Trump’s lawyers said the jury should have been told they needed to find that …