Carroll Promises to Do ‘Something Good’ With a Fortune Won From Trump
Carroll Promises to Do ‘Something Good’ With a Fortune Won From Trump
The writer was awarded $83.3 million for his defamation. Now, she will have to figure out how to use it.
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.
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.
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.
No need to focus on her - she can buy 83 Million dollars worth of bubblegum if she wants to.
Except this will piss Trump off even more. She's proving that she's not trying to enrich herself in any way.
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.
You cannot use bankruptcy to escape a court judgement. Judgements are among the highest-priority debts in a bankruptcy proceeding and would be among the first to be discharged. Trump's wealth may be largely fake, but he certainly has the money for this judgement just in the form of his real estate holdings. Aint escaping it. Her worst case is getting a lien, which would honestly be hilarious against a "real estate mogul".
You CAN be a deadbeat, but the debt continues to exist and new lawsuits can claw resources from you any time the plaintiff is able to identify them.
Not a great system, but this particular loophole does not exist.
And conviently enough, due to another, larger judgement, all of the Trump Org's assets are being overseen by a court-appoitned monitor right now. I will bet his personal assets are so intertwined with the Trump Org's assets that he can't really separate them. There really won't be any way to avoid this.
And I bet he is only funding his current lifestyle on campaign donations at this point. If he loses the election, watch for him to immediately file for 2028, just to be able to continue to "campaign" (which is really code for "cover all my living expenses while campaigning").
Right along side student loans.
That's just business as usual.
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.
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.
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.”
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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.
I'm excited and happy for her victory over this orange-faced monster, and I have a suggestion for doing something good with the money. Hire some cartel somewhere (because apparently we citizens are too cowardly) to walk up and shoot him in the face on 5th Avenue.
There could be no greater good or delicious irony to come from this whole thing.