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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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[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 128 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Looks to me like she's found herself the ol infinite money glitch.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Suing Trump is a perfectly balanced activity with no exploits. Today, I present to you a gloriously devious infinite money glitch that shall render our wallets fuller than a royal treasury on a binge! Prepare yourselves for a fiscal frenzy the likes of which the political world has never seen!

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I am going to pour myself a cup of Yorkshire Gold and join you. Brb

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doubling down is the only thing he knows how to do. It's how he avoided impeachments and has delayed his criminal trials. Looks like the civil acts are finally starting to catch up though. He's already posted one bond. He can't keep doing this forever.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Speedrun any% losing all your money like a fucking moron, haha. He just can't resist talking about her. She's gonna be the one to take him down, lol.

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 103 points 6 months ago (2 children)

“I just posted a $91 million bond, $91 million on a fake story, totally made-up story,” Trump said, adding that the judgment was, “based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn’t know, never heard of, I know nothing about her.”

What a dumbass.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

He cannot control himself. He truly can't help it. Hit him again!

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 75 points 6 months ago (2 children)

FWIW the New York jury found that she didn't prove he forced his penis inside of her. They found he did force his fingers inside of her vagina. In New York state law, that is sexual assault but not rape. It is rape according to federal law, and most colloquial uses of the term "rape." Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, that is what was proven in court.

He wasn't charged with rape in either state or federal court, because the statute of limitations had expired when she went public with her story.

So it's important to be clear, the jury did not find him innocent of rape. They found he did commit an act that is widely considered rape. It's inaccurate to say that they found he didn't rape her. They found that the act that had been proven did not meet the narrow New York state law standard for rape.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They found he did force his fingers inside of her vagina.

I thought it was that he put something inside her, but she was unable to clarify if it was his penis or finger.

[–] FReddit@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Either way, it would have been tiny and malformed.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

And the part where he sicced the goon squad on her while claiming the whole story was made up?

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago

I knew he couldn't shut the fuck up.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The idiot that fronted him that money is, well, an idiot.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He probably got some decent collateral for the effort. That may not have been that dumb of a move. For everything Trump has done, I think it will be wonderful if the thing that destroys him isn't the fraud or the insurrection, but his inability to shut the fuck up over what was originally a minor financial inconvenience to him. I just hope he keeps spending RNC money faster than it can be donated.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

He did the judge too, because he's just that stupid.

[–] HighElfMage@lemmy.world 19 points 6 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.

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Black Mirror has been too on the nose lately.

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 18 points 6 months ago

Just put this one on his tab.

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He is completely incapable of keeping his big mouth shut.

[–] obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like a great attribute for a president, no?

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

When you have more stupid in your head than money in your bank.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 8 points 6 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.

[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Do it! Sue him again! Surely this proves no appeal is merited.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago
[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is a legal strategy so he keeps getting sued in the hopes of finding a judge\jury that finds in his favor, then he can challenge the other cases based on the last case?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

The first case was the finding of fact that he did, in fact, sexually assult E. Jean Carroll.

In order for that finding of fact to be overturned, an appeals court would need to rule on that for that first case. Appeals courts overturning a finding of fact is incredibly rare. I believe that, because that fact has been found, the burden of proof is now on the appellant (Trump) to prove that the finding was incorrect.

The additional defamation cases rely on the finding of fact, and Trump's big fat mouth. Unless and until that fact is overturned (Narrator: It won't be.), Trump will lose every one of them. Even if he doesn't, that wouldn't change anything about the remaining cases where he was found to be defamatory.

[–] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 4 points 6 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.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (8 children)

The lack of empathy with Trump supporters should be studied. Because I would love to know what drives them to this man so much. He has the strongest collective of meat riders in human history.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

America is full of assholes. Trump is their King. King of the assholes and hero to the stupid.

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (9 children)

My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

[–] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I remember reading at the start of Covid in the US, when the government was saying “masks are dumb”, but local churches were going “masks save lives”, the churches were surprised at how much pushback they were getting.

Turns out raising someone from a young age to believe without questioning, and look up to one person as their only source of truth, and ignore compelling scientific evidence, is pretty hard conditioning to break.

Shockedpikachuface.jpg, #leopardsatemyface, etc.

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 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.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And people want this dumbass to lead the USA?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They love a bully

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

What a beautiful web site! Thank you for sharing.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Her infinite money hack just potentially got even more infinite.

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