Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday denied former President Trump's motion for a mistrial following Trump's conviction for defaming E. Jean Carroll.

Trump's attorney Alina Habba moved for a mistrial after Carroll testified she had deleted some messages she received that contained threats to kill her.

Judge Kaplan said Carroll's testimony should have been no surprise since she had given sworn testimony "to the same general effect" a year before the trial.

Kaplan also said Trump "demonstrated no clear error" in the judge's previous denial of a mistrial on the same grounds.

Trump has said he will appeal the verdict in the case, after the jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages.

Former President Trump said Tuesday that he's in the process of interviewing law firms to represent him in his appeal of the $83 million ruling in his defamation damages trial.

"I am in the process, along with my team, of interviewing various law firms to represent me in an Appeal," Trump posted to his social media platform. "I will make my decision soon!"

Alina Habba, Trump's legal counsel in the case, confirmed to ABC News that she continues to represent the former president in the matter.

Hiring a separate firm to handle the appellate process is a normal step in a case of this nature, and Habba said her team will work with the new firm as the appeal proceeds.

In a statement, E. Jean Carroll lauded the jury's verdict.

"This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down, and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down," Carroll said.

Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said, "Today’s verdict proves that the law applies to everyone in our country, even the rich, even the famous, even former presidents."

"We thank the jury for standing up for E. Jean and the rule of law,” she said.

Addressing the media outside the courthouse, Trump attorney Alina Habba slammed the $83 million verdict, dismissing the jury as "ridiculous" and repeating Trump's vow to immediately appeal.

"We will immediately appeal. We will set aside that ridiculous jury," Habba said. "I assure you -- we didn't win today, but we will win."

Habba repeated her grievances with the orders from the judge, who instructed the defense that, based on the ruling in Trump's previous trial, they could not dispute that Trump assaulted Carroll and later defamed her when he denied it.

"You are not allowed to be stripped of every defense you have," Habba said.

Habba said she was "so proud" to represent Trump, and repeated his familiar claim that he is being targeted for political purposes.

E. Jean Carroll's attorneys ended their defamation case against former President Trump by showing the jury some of Trump's social media posts and soundbites from his campaign rallies in which he repeats the defamatory statements he has made about her.

The jury also saw a portion of Trump's videotaped deposition for Carroll's case that he sat for in October 2022, in which Trump was given a copy of the 2019 New York magazine article that first published Carroll's sexual assault allegation.

"Did you ever read this article?" plaintiff's attorney Roberta Kaplan asked in the deposition. "No," Trump responded.

Kaplan, in the deposition, also read Trump's defamatory response to the article and asked, "Do you stand by the statement?" Trump responded, "Yes."

The jury also heard Trump in the deposition affirm that he stood by a June 24, 2019, statement in which he said Carroll was "not my type."

"You meant she was not your type, physically right?" Kaplan asked. "Physically, she's not my type," Trump responded. "The only difference between me and other people is that I'm honest."

The jury also saw the excerpt of the deposition in which Trump was handed an old black-and-white photo of him, his first wife Ivana, Carroll, and her then-husband John Johnson, and temporarily mistook Carroll for his second wife Marla Maples.

After the confusion, Kaplan, in the deposition, asked Trump if the three women he married were his type, and Trump answered, "Yeah."

Trump, in the deposition, also conceded that he had no information about Carroll's political party or evidence that she was pursuing a political agenda.

The jury also saw an excerpt of a videotaped deposition Trump gave in April 2023 as part of Trump's separate civil fraud lawsuit in which Trump boasted about his wealth, and estimated that the value of his Mar-a-Lago resort is $1.5 billion -- possibly meant to show the jury that Trump can afford a large damage award.