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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 2 years ago

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

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 116 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 2 years ago

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

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 45 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Sadly while there are certainly plenty of absolute dumbasses in the GOP, and every one of them is a shitstain that barely qualifies as a human being, there are quite a few of them that are incredibly conniving. If they spent half as much effort trying to actually improve the world as they spent trying to rat fuck everyone for their own profit most problems would have been solved by now. While this will certainly hurt them badly I expect enough of the cockroaches will skitter away that this won't actually destroy the GOP..

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

They don't care what happens to the party as long as they personally profit. If they gave a fuck about their own party they wouldn't have allowed the Tea Party dumbasses in, let alone Donald.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 2 years ago

It would be hilarious if Trump bankrupted the GOP.

Probably won't get that far, but if nothing else it means they have less money to spend on all the smaller local candidate races, which are arguably mode impactful long-term.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Statues should be built in her honor. Fucking hero.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's also how he's avoided civil trials and paying judgments in the past. Keep denying, keep denying, ever onwards, and eventually the court will give up because they're tired, the plaintiff is tired, and nobody wants to deal with you screeching "no I didn't do it" for the 843rd time.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Show me the money

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