The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an $83.3 million defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday, reinforcing a jury finding that President Donald Trump defamed her when he dismissed her 2019 sexual assault allegations as false.

The federal appeals panel rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the award, which includes $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.

The court deemed the jury’s decision “fair and reasonable” in light of Trump’s prolonged attacks on Carroll’s credibility and character, which the court noted had continued for at least five years and become “more extreme and frequent as the trial approached.”

The three-judge panel wrote in its ruling, “The statements all shared common themes: Trump continued to assert

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