“MEMORANDUM OPINION DENYING DEFENDANT’S RULE 59 MOTION re: [204] MOTION for New Trial. filed by Donald J Trump. The jury in this case did not reach ‘a seriously erroneous result.’ Its verdict is not ‘a miscarriage of justice.’ Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages or a remittitur (Dkt 204) is denied. SO ORDERED,” writes SDNY Circuit Judge Lewis Kaplan in the order tossing disgraced former President Trump’s motion for a retrial and a reduction of the $5 million judgement against him after being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation by a jury in one of two lawsuits brought be writer EJ Carroll over a credible accusation he raped her circa 1995.

Adding to the beatdown, in the full memorandum Kaplan also wrote “As is shown in the following notes, the definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of ‘rape’ in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere. The finding that Ms Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Meaning a federal court has ruled that Trump is in fact a rapist and it is no longer potentially libelous or defamatory for National Zero’s editorial staff to refer to him as such in print. Free speech prevails!