A federal appeals court upheld an $83.3 million defamation judgment against Donald Trump in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll .

The judges rejected Trump’s appeal, as his attorneys argued that the verdict was excessive and that he was shielded by presidential immunity.

Carroll sued Trump, claiming that he lied about sexually assaulting her in a 1996 incident at Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan.

The case concerned comments that Trump made about her during his first term in the White House. The judges wrote that they “conclude that Trump has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity. We also conclude that the district court did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury’s damages aw

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