Donald Trump has been highly vocal in attacking Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding in his fraud trial. Has called him a "Democrat operative", "should be disbarred", "interfered in an election" etc.
...so it's more than a little odd that Trump's legal team did not submit a request for damages to be decided by jury. It was an option available to them, in the form of a routine form. His legal team didn't do so, meaning the damages will now be decided by... Arthur Engoron.
Several commentators have suggested it was incompetent oversight on the part of the legal team. I would've thought that was unfeasible a few years ago in a trial concerning a former President, but this is the man that hired Sidney Powell.