articlePresident Donald Trump is still facing a $83.3 million payment to writer E. Jean Carroll after a federal appeals court rejected his challenge of a defamation verdict against him Monday. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court decision finding that Trump did, in fact, defame Carroll. Trump's lawyers argued his comments about Carroll were protected by presidential immunity and that the verdict in the case was unjust. US APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP VERDICT IN E JEAN CARROLL CASECarroll sued Trump twice after she released a book in 2019, which claimed Trump raped her during a brief encounter with him in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Monday's ruling comes months after the same court rejected Trump's appeal in another Carroll-related case.