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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

He’ll keep defaming her because he knows it doesn’t cost him a penny. He knows that he has his legions of mugs and idiots who will keep giving up their social security checks for him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

He’ll extort them again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How does a guy with a duck that short manage to keep tripping over it?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Love it. Every time he can't help himself, he'll get a larger and larger financial slap. Next ones gonna be pretty big.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The year is 2065. E. Jean Carroll is the richest human alive. She rules a business empire that stretches across the globe and even to Mars. This empire does not charge for services, sell products or even take investor funding.

Its only source of revenue is suing the immortal cyborg that is Donald Trump, who even after 40 years of taking Ls is still pathologically unable to keep his fucking mouth shut.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Black Mirror has been too on the nose lately.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

The irony of the GOP going bankrupt because they have to donate all their money to women's charities after selling the party out to this buffoon is so think I could choke on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I was his lawyer I may try arguing his mental state prevents him from understanding the words he says. I'm not a lawyer, but that's the only explanation I can think of as to why he keeps this up. There's a lot to say about his base, but honestly they can ignore things as they do with the rulings. He's got plenty of other people he can go after, plenty of hate he could spend time on. He just keeps sticking his hand in this piranha bowel. He's an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

his mental state prevents him from understanding the words he says

What a delightful precedent that would set

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Being mentally unwell rarely keeps someone out of jail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

What's 89 times, what, 16? Asking for a friend...

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I want to thank Putin for funding E. Jean Carroll's charities for helping abused women, and I am looking forward to more, even larger donations. Ukraine could use some aid, also, since Putin is feeling so charitable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its likely in the works, but first go back to the court who gave you 83 million and ask them to shut him up first, hold him in custody till there is a hearing where the judge tells him, "shut up or else".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

IANAL, but I don't think you can face jail/prison time over a civil suit. UNLESS the judge finds him in contempt of court.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Her infinite money hack just potentially got even more infinite.

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