SRS, the last two paragraphs of the article are the key issue, I think:

"Her original November 2019 lawsuit has been bogged down in appeals over whether Mr Trump was immune from being sued because he had been president when he spoke.

"Ms Carroll's lawyers said in a letter to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday that because Mr Trump's alleged defamatory statements were essentially the same, the only open issues are whether he was immune for making the first statement and, if not, what damages he owes."