A New York appeals court on Monday ruled that the $83.3 million awarded to E. Jean Carroll for Donald Trump’s defamatory comments about her after she accused him of rape was warranted, given the “ extraordinary and egregious ” facts of the case.

In a 70-page, unsigned decision upholding the massive judgment, three justices for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan did not err in trial rulings challenged by Trump.

The court also found that Trump had failed to make a case for the appeals court to revisit its previous ruling rejecting his presidential immunity claims because he raised them too late.

Trump’s lawyers had partly argued that the July 2024 Supreme Court decision granting the president sweeping legal protections should get him off

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