Jury Determines Ex-POTUS Must Pay $83 Million In Damages For Defaming E. Jean Caroll - TPM – Talking Points Memo

After deliberating for less than three hours, the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil trial against Donald Trump has determined that the former president must pay the writer $83 million in damages for defaming her in 2019 when she came forward accusing him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. 


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$83M here, $83M there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

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Well, at least he has his dignity.

Or something.

Sorry, hard to type, I’m laughing too hard.

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i’m assuming he’ll appeal

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The face of dignity.

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So fun to watch him suffer loss by loss at the hands of women. It is a good day!

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Does he have to put up a cash bond in order to appeal?

@txlawyer?

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trump is “rich,” but I would bet a lot of my own money that he doesn’t have anywhere near $83 million in liquid funds just lying around. He’s gonna have to sell some shit, or get the MAGA morons to give him the money.

He will appeal, but I hope that the court makes him place the $83 million in escrow pending the outcome of the appeal(s). I believe that is something that is commonly done.

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Time for MAGA land to break out their checkbooks.

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Katie Phang on MSNBC says, yes, he has to post an appeal bond.

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Troof Social servers heating up now, all-caps raging incoming !!

Magats will be begged to clear out their savings for Dotard.
Maybe the Meal Team Six guys on their way to Texas can help out too.

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“he thinks with his wealth and power he can treat Ms. Carroll how he wants and will suffer no consequences.”

This is a heavy narcissistic injury. I find it really satisfying to see Roberta Kaplan, Judge Chutkan, E. Jean Carroll, and Nikki Haley getting his goat. For someone as misogynistic as Trump, this has got to hurt.

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Liz Cheney was right.

Dump Trump!

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This is on a par with what Giuliani had to pay to each of his two victims.

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Definitely agreed, but counter-point posted through my tears of laughter: only a rich person as stupid as Donald J. Trump would have $83M cash laying around just doing nothing.

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If Drumpf were as rich as he claims, this would be a drop in the bucket.

But, of course, he’s not.

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Depending on his civil fraud trial, that could amount to a total of $450 million. He does not have that much cash on hand—he’ll more than likely have to sell some properties at a discount to raise the money.

This doesn’t even take into account his legal fees that I’m sure are eating into his presidential ‘fundraising’

And he STILL has FOUR criminal trials coming up!

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Oh, he’ll appeal it as excessive, but I have a hard time seeing an appellate court slashing that figure since he keeps defaming her.

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I’m sure the MAGATs will open their checkbooks to help out. Fine with me…fewer donor dollars being spent on ads.

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*incoming call tone “Never Gonna Give You Up”
Jared Kushner - “Hello ?”
DJT - “J, I need some cash, now !!”
JK - “…click”

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