A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld advice writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation award she secured from President Trump last year, rejecting Trump’s claims of presidential immunity.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously affirmed Carroll’s first trial win that found Trump liable for sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s and ordered him to pay $5 million. The president is preparing to take that ruling to the Supreme Court.

Monday’s ruling, meanwhile, upholds the jury’s verdict in Carroll’s second trial, which brought defamation claims against Trump for publicly denying the columnist’s story after she went public during the president’s first White House term. The jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million.

On appeal, Trump’s lawyers argued the award is excess

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