A federal appeals court on Monday upheld an $83.3 million jury award against President Donald Trump for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of a decades-old rape in a Manhattan department store — an attack for which he was separately found liable for sexual abuse.

The court also rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision last year affording presidential immunity for official acts barred a finding of liability in Carroll’s lawsuit.

The unsigned ruling by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan was unanimous.

The president had assailed Carroll after she accused him of the assault, saying her claim was “totally false” and that she was trying to sell a book. He continued his verbal attacks on her on social med

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