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Crime Donald Trump

E. Jean Carroll Just Told Trump He Has ‘One Week To Pay’ Her – Or Else

On Friday morning, writer E. Jean Carroll reminded failed one-term former president Donald Trump that he now has exactly one week to fork over the $83.3 million he owes her as part of a defamation lawsuit she won against him.

Taking to Twitter/X, Carroll wrote, “Trump has one week to pay.”

According to Forbes, Trump’s attorneys are arguing that since he will be appealing the defamation damages, he shouldn’t have to pay the full security bond necessary before his appeal is granted.

The ex-president has asked the court to pause the judgment against him while he files post-trial motions in the case, or else allow Trump to post a “substantially reduced bond”—and while the court quickly rejected his request to immediately pause the judgment while it considers the motion, it still has to issue a lasting ruling.

Attorneys for Carroll noted in a court filing Thursday that the disgraced ex-president is asking the court to “simply trust that he’s very rich” and doesn’t need to post a bond guaranteeing he’ll pay the money, while they have “very serious concerns about Trump’s cash position” and the “feasibility” of him paying what he owes.

In addition to what he owes Carroll, Trump is also on the hook for $454 million in bank and tax fraud penalties assessed by a court as part of a civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. That massive fine is accruing hundreds of thousands of dollars in late fees and penalties as the former president attempts to find the cash needed to cover the court’s ruling.

If Trump doesn’t have the cash needed to pay both Carroll and the state of New York, he will likely be forced to start selling properties such as Trump Tower in order to raise money. Those sales eventually could lead to the financial collapse of the Trump Organization.

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Donald Trump Sex Scandals

E. Jean Carroll Has A Devastating New Description Of Donald Trump That’s Certain To Enrage Him

Speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday evening, just days after a massive $83.3 million legal victory over failed former president Donald Trump, writer E. Jean Carroll shared a description of how the ex-head of state looked at the defamation trial that concluded last week in New York.

“He is like a walrus snorting and like a rhino flopping his hands. He is not there. That was the surprising thing to me.”

Carroll admitted that she had been terrified of facing Trump in court, but her fears quickly abated when she took the stand and began testifying.

“Amazingly, I looked out, and he was nothing,” she said. “He was nothing. He was a phantom. It was the people around him who were giving him power. He himself was nothing.”

That moment of clarity, Carroll continued, gave her new insight regarding the Donald.

“We don’t need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked out.”

Others who have observed Trump over the years agreed with Carroll, suggesting that he’s just an impotent coward.

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Donald Trump Elections

This Video Could Wind Up Costing Donald Trump Hundreds Of Millions In Damages

 

Now that a precedent has been established in the state of Georgia as a result of the massive $148 million defamation judgement handed down against Rudy Giuliani for his slagging of election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, it’s fair to ask if a similar fate awaits failed former president Donald Trump, who has also said horrible things about the two women.

As MSNBC’s Ali Velshi noted, “If Giuliani is guilty of defaming two innocent people, knowingly spreading lies at their expense, is the disgraced ex-president as well?”

Velshi explained why Trump should be worried.

“The January 6th Select Committee clearly illustrated the way Trump targeted Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in the aftermath of the election. This was the crowd in Valdosta, Georgia, at a Trump rally on December the 5th, 2020. Remember, this was after the election. What they’re doing is watching the video incorrectly purporting to show Moss and Freeman engaged in election fraud, and after that, this is what Trump said.”

Velshi then played a video clip of Trump declaring, “So, if you just take the crime of what those Democrat workers were doing — by the way, there was no water main break,” said Trump in the clip. “You know, they said there was no water main break. That’s ten times more than I need to win this state, ten times more. It is ten times, maybe more than that, but it is ten times more because we lost by a very close number.”

“Beyond the scope of civil litigation, what sort of overlap exists between the Giuliani ruling and Trump’s criminal case in Fulton County, Georgia?” Velshi added. “Trump mentioned Ruby Freeman 18 times on that infamous ‘Find me 11,000 votes’ call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, after all. What is next?”

What is next? Probably a massive lawsuit filed by Freeman and Moss against Trump. As if he doesn’t already have enough legal headaches.

Here’s the video from MSNBC:

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Crime Donald Trump

E. Jean Carroll’s Attorney Has A Warning For Trump That’s Certain To Infuriate Him

Ever since a New York jury found that failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump did indeed sexually assault and defame writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages, the disgraced ex-head of state has been lashing out on social media, and that could wind up leading to him being charged with defamation yet again.

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, spoke with Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, and she made it clear that Trump had best shut his trap and stop making inflammatory postings.

Lithwick asked Kaplan about Trump’s disgusting comments during his CNN town hall, where he called Carroll a “wack job,” said the trial had been a “rigged deal,” and asked the studio audience, “What kind of a woman meets somebody, and brings them up, and within minutes you’re playing hanky panky in a dressing room?”

Kaplan replied, “I knew he would continue to deny it. But once the jury came back and the CNN Town Hall was on, we knew they were going to ask about it. And we knew he wasn’t going to say, ‘OK, now I admit it, I was wrong.”

She added:

“I’m so sorry E. Jean, that I did that to you. We knew that wasn’t gonna happen. I think I was a little stunned that he used exactly the same language. He basically repeated the defamation in ways that make it very easy for us to not have to prove a future case on the merits, because we’re gonna get what’s called collateral estoppel or issue preclusion. So that wasn’t maybe wisest thing for him to do.”

“I’m watching to see if he keeps doing it, though. I mean, I think the threat of [losing] more and more money may ultimately tone down what he says at some point,” Kaplan explained.

Though he’s clearly ignorant when it comes to the law, Kaplan noted, he understands what it means to be on the hook for a $5 million judgment.

“I think he understands money. One thing Donald Trump understands is money, and $5 million for Donald Trump is not nothing. And there’s really no viable appellate argument. So he’s going to have to pay that $5 million with interest sooner than he thinks he’s gonna have to pay it. He’ll have to pay interest from the time of the judgment. Yeah. That’s 9 percent … I’m not even sure he’s got $5 million in liquidity. He may have to sell something to pay you the $5 million.”

 

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Elections GOP

‘Deceitful Fraud’ Kari Lake Is Facing A Massive Lawsuit That Could Cost Her A Fortune

Having spent a year and a half insisting that she actually won the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, Republican Kari Lake is finally starting to see that her scorched earth policy of attacking everyone who refused to help her overturn the results of that election do indeed come with a price.

What price? Well, perhaps millions in compensatory and punitive damages as the result of a massive defamation lawsuit filed against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

Mark Z. Barabak of the Los Angeles Times notes that Lake may finally be held responsible for her irresponsible words and actions.

Last week, a top election official in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, filed a defamation lawsuit against his fellow Republican, saying Lake’s blatant lies have cost him friends and lifelong relationships. Her malicious incitement has also resulted in death threats, he said, and harassment aimed at him and his wife.

“Rather than accept political defeat, rather than get a new job, [Lake] has sought to undermine confidence in our elections and has mobilized millions of her followers against me,” Richer wrote in the Arizona Republic. “Her defamatory allegations have unleashed violent vitriol and other dire consequences.”

Richer has a hell of a case, too, Barabak explains.

Her farrago of falsehoods includes allegations that Richer manipulated the printing of election ballots and “inserted” 300,000 phony votes into the final count to prevent Republican candidates, including Lake, from winning.

Lake’s phony claims were repeated numerous times, the lawsuit documents, at political rallies, during podcasts and on social media. Richer seeks unspecified monetary damages as well as a court order determining Lake’s statements were false and requiring her to delete them.

Defamation lawsuits aren’t easy to win. The bar for victory is high, but it’s not impossible as we witnessed recently when a jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages against former president Donald Trump for sexually assaulting her and then lying about the matter.

Additionally, Fox “News” also forked over $785.7 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems for the lies some of the network’s hosts told about the 2020 presidential election being stolen with the use of voting machines, even going so far as to suggest that the machines had been hacked and manipulated by China and Venezuela.

Kari Lake deserves to be hit with a massive dose of karma, and one that takes an enormous bite out of the money she’s grifted from supporters since she lost in 2022 would be a nice start at righting the many wrongs she’s committed for her own self-aggrandizement.