On Wednesday, a federal magistrate in New York delivered terrible news to Donald Trump’s legal team.

Trump’s request for a new trial in the civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll has reportedly been denied.

The journalist Carroll accused the former president of raping and slandering her.

In May, a jury in New York found Trump not convicted of rape but culpable of sexual abuse.

Consequently, he was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million. The total amount included $2 million for compensatory damages and $1.7 million for reputational damages.

Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump’s request for a retrial after the verdict in May, as reported by ABC News.

“The jury in this case did not reach ‘a seriously erroneous result,’” Kaplan said. “Its verdict is not ‘a miscarriage of justice.’”

Trump denied Carroll’s accusation vehemently throughout the trial and after its conclusion.

Trump immediately published a series of responses to the ruling on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Trump wrote.

“VERY UNFAIR TRIAL!” Trump added in another post.

In its quest for a new trial, Trump’s legal team argued that the jury’s verdict of sexual abuse, as opposed to rape, disqualified it from receiving such a large settlement.

“The Court should order a new trial on damages or grant remittitur because contrary to Plaintiff’s claim of rape, the Jury found that she was not raped but was sexually abused by Defendant during the 1995/1996 Bergdorf Goodman incident,” Trump’s attorneys argued, per ABC News.

“Such abuse could have included groping of Plaintiffs breasts through clothing or similar conduct, which is a far cry from rape … Therefore, an award of $2 million for such conduct, which admittedly did not cause any diagnosed mental injury to Plaintiff, is grossly excessive under the applicable case law.”

Roberta Kaplan (no relation to Lewis Kaplan) issued a statement on behalf of her client in response to Wednesday’s ruling.

“Now that the court has denied Trump’s motion for a new trial or to decrease the amount of the verdict, E. Jean Carroll looks forward to receiving the $5 million in damages that the jury awarded her,” she said.