Donald Trump s latest effort to reverse his court-ordered $83.3 million payout to the writer E. Jean Carroll was rejected Thursday, leaving him on the hook for the damages she won in her defamation trial against him.

The ruling comes in response to Trumps requests for a new trial and a reduced judgment against him in Carrolls defamation case, which she brought after Trump lied about sexually assaulting her.

Mr. Trumps argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a
matter of fact for all of the reasons articulated in Ms. Carrolls memorandum of law in opposition to his motion, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his ruling against Trump, who has made several attempts to reduce or appeal the January judgment against him.

Kaplan shot down the claims from the former president that the payout was excessive, pointing to the reach of his defamatory statements about Carroll.