'Justice served' as Trump loses bid to toss $83.3 million judgment in defamation case

President Donald Trump on Monday lost an appeal to overturn a jury verdict ordering him to pay $83.3 million plus interest for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, according to CNBC.

The panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan said in a 70-page ruling that, despite Trump's insistence that the judgement was excessive and invalid in the wake of the Supreme Court's expansion of his presidential immunity, 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 blow comes just as Trump's attorneys planned to ask the Supreme Court to toss the separate $5 million abuse and defamation verdict in the civil case Carroll won in 2023.

In both cases, Carroll said Trump defamed her in statements denying her accusation that he raped her in the mid 90s in tony Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman.

A July 19, 2023 Washington Post headline spelled it out: "Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll."

While Carroll herself hasn't commented yet, just posting the news on her X account, users are showering the former Elle columnist with congratulatory messages and reminders of Trump's crime.

"E. Jean Carroll is what happens when you have a spine," posted Bluesky account AltSpaceForce.

Writer Andrea Junker agreed, saying, "I wish I lived in a country where Republicans had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors."

"JUST IN: Trump is still an adjudicated rapist and owes E. Jean Carroll $83,000,000," wrote X user The Maine Wonk.

Social media influencer Ed Krassenstein agreed, saying on X, "Repeat after me: Trump is a rapist!"

Popular Liberal agreed, saying, "No escape for the lies — justice served! IT WAS RAPE."

"So. Much. Winning," posted X account Republicans against Trump.