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Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in damages for repeatedly defaming her, a jury found Friday.

The nine-person jury began deliberations in federal court in New York at 1:40 p.m. ET and reached a verdict in just under three hours.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I hope this goes on forever: he keeps defaming, she keeps sueing. Cause we all know this fat turd wont keep his mouth shut.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

He's keeping it shut so far this time. This fine is enough to hurt.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any news on what the legal costs have been?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NYT reported $60 million back in August.

Trump said his legal fees were close to $100 million while campaigning in Iowa in late October.

The truth is that nobody really knows the hard total, though based on available information it seems like it could be upwards of $5 million per month on average.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Badda Bing, Badda Boom.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Fucking loser always loses.

He's demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just got more loser-y folks... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

  • 0 re-elections won
  • 1 term president
  • 2 times impeached
  • 3 marriages
  • 4 inch lifts in his shoes
  • 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
  • 6 bankruptcies
  • 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
  • 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
  • 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
  • 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
  • 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
  • 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
  • 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
  • 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
  • 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to kill years later.
  • 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
  • 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
  • 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
  • 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
  • 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
  • 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
  • 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
  • 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
  • 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
  • 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

....

83 - million dollars Trump has to pay to E. Jean Carrol for defamation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

91 - indictments

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

🎵 And a partridge in a pear treeeee 🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Some slight dissonance as you switch from "always loses" to "was president for 4 years"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

losing the popular vote still counts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Many people think he didn’t even want to win the first time around. Like the picture of his face when he found out, etc.

So maybe he actually lost that election vs his expectations.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

At least fix the markdown ffs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Holy shit that’s an incredible list. Amazing summation. Thanks.

He’s like an elite trailer park king of awfulness.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

Honestly though, has trump ever paid anyone anything, like ever??

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