Trump had attempted to overturn the sentence that previously ordered him to pay the aforementioned sum, but the unanimous decision of three appeals judges of the Second Circuit of the United States in a federal court based in Manhattan today has served to ratify it.

“He has not identified any basis to justify reconsidering our previous decision on presidential immunity,” the judges interpreted, after Trump had alleged that the verdict against him was excessive and unfounded after the Supreme Court expanded his presidential immunity.

The judges also ruled that the lower federal court “did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury's damages awards are fair and reasonable.”

This defamation lawsuit against the US president came after he attacked the journalist in various ways due to the accusations of sexual abuse she made against him.

Trump used public events, social media, and even his guilty trial to attack the author, to the point that Carroll's lawyers urged the jury to award large damages to stop him.

A large portion of the verdict ($65 million) consisted of punitive damages after the jury determined that Trump had acted with actual malice, meaning he knew what he said was false or with reckless disregard for the truth.

The remainder, up to $83.3 million, was in damages to compensate Carroll.

Another three-judge panel of the Second Circuit unanimously upheld the sexual abuse verdict in late December,independent in the courts of the defamation case, which Carroll won against the Republican magnate in 2023.

In that case, the jury awarded him $5 million in damages after finding him responsible for sexually abusing the writer in a fitting room at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman in New York in the mid-1990s and defaming her in statements he made after leaving the Oval Office in 2022.