Appeals court REJECTS Donald Trump's latest escape attempt in E. Jean Carroll case-$83 million verdict holds.

Donald Trump just lost another round in his years-long attempt to avoid paying $83 million to the woman a jury found he sexually abused and defamed.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday refused Trump's request to have its full panel rehear his challenge to E. Jean Carroll's defamation verdict. A three-judge panel had already upheld the $83.3 million judgment in September. The full court declining to reconsider it means Trump's next stop is the Supreme Court - the one he stacked with three of his own appointees.

The court's message was blunt. Judge Denny Chin wrote that Trump's attempt to substitute the United States government as the defendant - essentially asking taxpayers to pay his defamation bill - was raised "fifteen months after trial and the entry of judgment against him." "No other defendant," the judge wrote, "would be permitted" to do this.

No other defendant. A phrase that keeps applying to a man who keeps insisting the rules don't apply to him.

Let's review what the juries actually found.

In 2023, a federal jury concluded Trump sexually abused Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her when he denied it - awarding her $5 million. In 2024, a separate jury found Trump defamed Carroll again with statements he made in 2019, awarding her $83.3 million after concluding those statements caused her to be harassed, humiliated, subjected to death threats, and left fearing for her physical safety for years.

Two juries. Two verdicts. Over $88 million in total judgments. Every appellate court that has considered the case has upheld the findings.

Trump's legal team responded by calling Carroll's allegations "Hoaxes" and "false claims" and declaring that "the American people stand with President Trump in demanding an end to the unlawful, radical weaponization of our justice system."

The American people who served on those two juries apparently did not get that memo.

Trump has posted a $92 million bond to delay collection while he appeals. He will now likely ask the Supreme Court to save him from the consequences of the crimes that two separate juries concluded he committed.

Meanwhile, E. Jean Carroll has been waiting for justice since 2019.

She's still waiting.

Please like and share this article if you believe a man found liable for sexual abuse should have to pay what the jury awarded - regardless of what office he holds.