Can you pay rape defamation victim damages out of your campaign fund?
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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Sure you caaan. And it's only illegal if you get charged and effectively punished!
Within 30 days of the judge's written judgment, Trump has to turn over either cash or a bond.
This always, always begs the question: "or what?" Over and over we hear of what courts decide people "must" do, but when they are rich and/or powerful or honestly just stubborn enough, it doesn't seem to have any teeth.
And I get it, there are a lot of things they can do, but they always seem to scared or complacent to do any of them. It's getting real old reading about what Trump or Alex Jones or whoever "must" do without seeing them actually suffer consequences for not doing it.
In this case, Carroll can start taking possession of his assets herself. She does not seem particularly sheepish about that. For some of these people, they can hide their assets, but Trump's are publicly known. I can't say what will happen, but there's some teeth to this one. And Trump couldn't argue with the damages amount because he'd risk losing one of his other cases that hinges on his assets' worth.
Also, I think it would mean she immediately gets the $5m that Trump had to put in escrow (which essentially means the court can dispense this without any action from Trump)
Fuckin bullshit... If you or I, any normal citizen, wins a punitive judgement, the courts will do absolutely fuck all to collect it for you.
This should be the standard for ALL damages imposed by ALL courts for * everyone*, not just a special case because it's everyone's favorite fucking oompah loompah.
What's to stop Trump doing the same thing that OJ has been doing for 25 years to avoid paying out to the families of the people he murdered in cold blood?
That is literally one of the reasons requiring the escrow account.
What did O. J. Simpson do to avoid paying?
OJ declared bankruptcy. If Trump did that he’d be opening up his finances to a ton of scrutiny he doesn’t want. He’d also be admitting to the world that his status as a successful billionaire is pure horseshit.
I do believe he testified recently that he is in good financial standing and has $400m cash. Which means perjury time, baby! Let's go!
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The reason he has to cough up the money is: he has to post bond before he's allowed to appeal. So either he pays what he owes, or he puts up the money to ensure he pays after the appeal is overturned.
Ms. Carroll, unfortunately, won't see that money for probably another year, but at least she can rest assured that Trump is going to lose that appeal. Even if he becomes Supreme Dictator in November, that money is gone.
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To post a bond that large, someone would need to trust Trump to pay his debts...
I think it would be hard for anyone to risk 88 million to post a bond in any case. Trump is going to have to write the check.
If you’ve already put $2B in trust with his son in law, what’s an extra 5% to keep daddy happy. It’s just a down payment for future intelligence.
I wonder if he can secure it with rubles...
To put a possible US president in your pocket? Plently of people would smile as they wrote that check.
Lending money to Trump doesn't put him in your pocket because he just doesn't pay his debts and somehow manages to always get away with it.
I'd like to name one. If there is anyone with 88 million to spare, that same person values money more than Trump.
ElMu pissed away $44 BILLION on Twitter to take over and destroy a public information spreading platform, do you really think that someone on his level wouldn't toss away $88 million to own the potential US president?
Home Depot guy.
There were billionaires who donated as much Trump 2020 PACs so it's not completely unreasonable. However those billionaires likely did so control political messaging, it's not clear what they could gain here but I am not a billionaire.
I highly doubt the money will come out of Trumps personal funds, he has been fundraising for years and will likely continue to use those funds to pay for things.
He's already been warned that he can't spend donated funds to pay the fine.
He's received plenty of warnings but no repercussions. So he will continue stealing from charities and misusing campaign funds until there is an actual consequence.
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