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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 294 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 116 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 27 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 45 points 8 months ago (2 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.

[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well what with the whole Republican party gearing up to pay all his court stuff might as well take them all down eventually.

100% wishful thinking I know.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That would require literally everyone involved to be impossibility stupid. The only way that could possibly work is if every single GOP politician had the intelligence of a spoilt grape fruit. What I'm saying is that I expect the GOP to be liquidated by this time next year.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

Statues should be built in her honor. Fucking hero.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 33 points 8 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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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 257 points 8 months ago (5 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.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 69 points 8 months ago

Yep. Here we go again.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 163 points 8 months ago (3 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 35 points 8 months ago (2 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 44 points 8 months ago

Either way, it would have been tiny and malformed.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 38 points 8 months ago

“His fingers went into my vagina, which was extremely painful,” Ms. Carroll said. Then, she said, he inserted his penis.

-NYT (see below)

Whole incident:

I’d never seen it specified exactly… horrible to read.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Juries never find you innocent of anything. They find you not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That is a big difference.

Anyone who claims that a court found them innocent is lying.

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[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago

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

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 72 points 8 months ago

I knew he couldn't shut the fuck up.

[–] m13@lemmy.world 65 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Drag his ass Carroll! Hit him again!

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[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 26 points 8 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.

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Court records filed Friday show that the bond was guaranteed by the Chubb Corporation, an insurance group. In 2018, Trump appointed Chubb’s CEO Evan Greenberg to a White House advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations.

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[–] HighElfMage@lemmy.world 57 points 8 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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Dumbass is such a dumbass that he doesn't know that he can just not talk about this.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (3 children)

He knows, but he just can't hold it back... His urge to say something is unhinged, even if he knows that'll maybe cost him more money.

Extra dumbass

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[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And people want this dumbass to lead the USA?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

They love a bully

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago (6 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.

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (10 children)

My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

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

[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's called fanaticism, which is when people stop liking someone because of their actions/oratory and start liking the actions/oratory because they came from the person.

Americans have been conditioned such that they're fallible to this bullshit.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 44 points 8 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.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Her infinite money hack just potentially got even more infinite.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One hundred billion dollars!

  • Dr. Evil

-- E. Jean Carroll

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[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

He is completely incapable of keeping his big mouth shut.

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 26 points 8 months ago

Just put this one on his tab.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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