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Less than two weeks after paying E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million tied to a civil sexual abuse and defamation case, President Donald Trump is asking for the money back.

Trump’s legal team is seeking an emergency injunction that would force Carroll to return the amount she was paid following a judge’s July 8 ruling that ordered the payment process to begin, according to The Independent.

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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 17 points 1 day ago

Uh-oh they're paying attention to the war that I'm using to distract from the Epstein files to distract from the reflecting pool to distract from the diapers to distract from Russia to distract from my cankles to distract from the bruises to distract from the assassination attempts to distract from the Howard Stern episodes to distract from the mashed potatoes to distract from the ... wait I lost count.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When is he going to be declared a vexatious litigant, and be prohibited from filing lawsuits?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

If he can't be on the receiving end of civil suits while he's president, he should also be banned from originating them. After all, the Supreme Court's bullshit reason is that he's supposed to be too busy, though he spends more time playing golf and soiling himself than he does actually working. And doing otherwise creates a power asymmetry that he can exploit, as we have seen.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are you expecting Justice from the Justice system?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Just waiting until they rename it to the ministry of love

And pay her more money because of it!

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LOL, hurry up and stroke out, loser.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

I hope his body tortures him on the way out. Actual complete suffering and conscious awareness of what is happening. And do it in 4k.

Any time someone has a bad day, show em him screaming in pain before he goes limp. Makes everybody feel better every time.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 139 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Goddammit motherfucker just fucking die! It's fucking pennies compared to what he is stealing from us tax payers every fucking day. Let it go you fucking pedophile! He should be going to prison not fighting to still overturn his lose in 2020 and fighting over this. He rapes a woman and allowed to walk free only having to pay 5 million. Yet he got to keep fighting her over this.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 67 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Trump has this utterly fundamental belief that you're either a "winner" or a "loser." The moment you give something they want, that makes them the winner and therefore you are the loser. He doesn't care about the numbers, he just cares about whether he's winning.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ironic, since he’s one of the biggest fucking losers in recent history lmao

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hard to tell with him making billions off our tax dollars and having zero consequences for the corruption.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Zero consequences so far.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and literally nobody loves him—not even himself

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

i don't think he has that emotion, everything is just an object to him.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I would bet that he's got his father's voice in his head, telling him what a loser he is a dozen times a day.

A lot of us have family trauma. Most of us don't try to burn down the entire world because of it.

How different do you think things would be if someone had gotten this man into therapy in the '80s or '90s?

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He should be dropped down a fucking hole and used as a urinal.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember a story of someone in New York, I think they were a journalist, sending to the well known, wealthy in the city a check for one penny. Only person who cashed it was Trump.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think there was two people, and one was Trump

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Donald Trump and Bonald Brump 🥸

It still shows how money grubbing he is. I received some checks from a defunct 401K for a penny each. I plan to frame them eventually.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 49 points 2 days ago

Can't wait for another judge to tell him to fuck off and E. Jean gets to keep what he owed her. And she should sue him for harassment.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

Oh look, thats an awful poor attempt to distract from iran, both of which are very poor attempts to distract from the fact that he raped children on epsteins island, potentially killed newborn babies from said children, and may have even been included in the cannibalism of said children

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

"No."

"... Well alright then, just had to ask in case it was on the table."

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He wants you mad about this bullshit that won't fly so you ignore his abject failures in Iran and at home and that the Epstein class is still doing whatever it wants even though he promised he would "drain the swamp."

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Nah, he's just a piece od shit. This isn't part of some strategy.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 23 points 2 days ago

Sounds like E. gets to have yet another round of winnings. How many times has he lost to her in court, so far? 7? 8?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

An adult dick… just to clarify. Ya know… since he’s a pedophile.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

I'm sure he does.

I'm sure this is true for nearly every entity that has ever lost a settlement

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

If Americans don't step up right now and end this madness, Trump is going to make Hitler look like a saint in the history books...and he will turn America into Dante's most depraved level of Hell.

Wake the fuck up!

The whole world is watching all of you and Americans are just letting him get away with all of this.

Don't you people have laws, or people willing to enforce them? This would never fly in any other 1st world country, and most 3rd world countries would be fighting harder right now than almost all Americans are. What happened to Americans?

When did Americans become so spineless?

Is this what America wants? Is Trump not the actual problem? Is America the problem?

The world is watching you, and is so disappointed in you right now. Do something.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Hey, thanks for the input. Most of us are still trying to stay no violent and use the American democratic system via the midterm.

He’s going to try to fuck with that, but I think we need to see democracy fail at the state level ballot boxes before we have to say non violence isn’t working.

There have been many protests, many people have been accused or detained because of these, many Americans are doing things it’s just that America is so fucking huge it’s hard to see them all and the main media is definitely under reporting.

If your only definition for America to have woken up is to impeach and remove Trump or begin some kind of rebellion well fine that’s your definition, but I think it’s very wrong to say everyone in the country is just sitting around twiddling their thumbs.

[–] iilwl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, something that is often missed in all this "literally all Americans are fucking worthless pieces of shit" rhetoric is that most people just aren't capable enough to raise a fucking army, coordinate coups, or plan assassinations. But I know a great many Americans who understand what they can do, and that is protecting their neighbors, feeding their communities, and fighting for their families. Many people are sacrificing a great deal to ensure the safety of those who are otherwise targeted. The one's that aren't were never going to do anything to begin with, but to say nothing is being done is an insult to those who are working tirelessly to help people survive this shit every day.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

They can get that way.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

The rest of the first world is complicit, but also good at theatre.

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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago

🤦‍♀️Fuck this guy

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