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The decision from a trio of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that verdict, which Trump argued was both excessive and invalid following a Supreme Court decision that expanded his presidential immunity.
But the appellate judges held that Trump “has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity.”
They also ruled that a lower federal court “did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury’s damages awards are fair and reasonable.”
The decision came less than a week after Trump’s lawyers signaled they will soon ask the Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict in a separate civil case Carroll had filed against the president, for which she has been awarded $5 million.
Both cases accused Trump of defaming Carroll in statements denying her accusation that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman.
The White House referred CNBC to Trump’s personal lawyers in the case, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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