• Oderus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Lol… good luck getting Trump to pay up. He’s a renown dead beat who never pays anyone. Even Rudy Giuliani is now realizing this and has spoken out.

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      9 months ago

      If he doesn’t, the state of New York will simply start seizing his property. If anything, the state of New York has proven that they’re not fucking around anymore.

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          9 months ago

          Does he even own it? I think it’s owned by someone else and they just license his name. He may have a stake (percentage) still, but I don’t think he even still owns a majority share.

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        N.Y. might be seizing the property regardless with the results of the real estate fraud case.

        Wouldn’t the state take the property and say Trump doesn’t own it. Therefore Trump would be forced to sell OTHER properties to pay Carroll.

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        9 months ago

        I wish I could believe the authorities would have the balls to do their job and enforce laws and judgments against wealthy rapists, but they generally don’t

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          9 months ago

          i mean… you’re currently commenting on an article about Trump having been successfully prosecuted twice and what the plaintiff is going to do with the money from her judgement… so, the authorities did do their jobs in this case.

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      9 months ago

      He’s appealing, so he has to put the money plus extra in a court controlled account. The court will pay her if he loses the appeal.

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    9 months ago

    No need to focus on her - she can buy 83 Million dollars worth of bubblegum if she wants to.

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      9 months ago

      Except this will piss Trump off even more. She’s proving that she’s not trying to enrich herself in any way.

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    9 months ago

    Trump is the sort of ‘patriot’ who will declare bankruptcy rather than pay the court damages awarded by the legal system. I feel for her.

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    9 months ago

    We all know he will drag this out forever. They may both die before he pays a nickel, escrow or not. But I hope I’m wrong.

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      9 months ago

      Well if I understand process correctly the first $5 million that he was forced to put in escrow for the appeal he just lost should be hers within the month. The large sum however will likely take years at the minimum.

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    After the verdict on Friday, Mr. Trump, issued a new attack on social media: “Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon.”

    RvW enters the chat.

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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    As soon as E. Jean Carroll heard the verdict on Friday — $83.3 million in defamation damages against Donald J. Trump — a world of possibility opened before her: How to use the money?

    Ms. Carroll, appearing relaxed and happy in her lawyers’ offices on Saturday, spoke in her first interview since the Manhattan jury’s award in her favor a day earlier.

    Ms. Carroll, 80, sued Mr. Trump, 77, for defamation after he called her a liar in June 2019, when she first publicly accused him, in a magazine article, of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room decades earlier.

    After the verdict on Friday, Mr. Trump, issued a new attack on social media: “Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon.” But he avoided criticizing Ms. Carroll, a silence that spoke volumes.

    Ms. Carroll praised the lawyers who have litigated her cases for more than four years, resulting in jury awards that have totaled nearly $90 million.

    As Ms. Carroll and her lawyers defend their verdicts on appeal and continue to fight to obtain the full judgment, she said she felt inspired to use the money to make real changes.


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    As a Trump-hating liberal Democrat, I wish there were more evidence against him for this. Not the defamation - he quite obviously did that - but the sexual assault.

    It’s such a touchy subject because many people don’t come forward for years or decades after it’s happened. But your ability to mount a defense against an accuser diminishes over time, which is why we have statutes of limitations.

    What were you doing 30 years ago today? Prove it.

    Carroll didn’t seem to have a lot of great evidence. My understanding is that alleges that she told two friends and that’s it. Seems unethical to say he did it for sure without a bit more proof. That’s all I’m saying.

    I’d like to get Trump on things he’s definitely done. He’s done plenty of horrible shit. Every time we get him on something that toes the line or isn’t proven, he’s going to get a boost in the polls.