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President Donald Trump is complaining to a federal court about the millions of dollars he was recently forced to pay out in the long-running defamation case brought and won by writer E. Jean Carroll.

Now, with the money already in Carroll's possession, Trump's legal team is alleging that Carroll's legal team misled the court.

"While the funds remained safely in CRIS, counsel assured this Court that they would be placed in an 'interest-bearing account,'" the reply brief goes on. "After securing possession, Plaintiff disclosed that the funds were instead placed in a personal investment account for her retirement—and invoked the S&P 500 to justify keeping them there. That was not a clarification. It was a bait-and-switch on the precise assurance used to resist judicial intervention."

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In the US, the president gets to decide what you do with your money, I guess.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If he keeps doing what he's doing, we'll end up using it as toilet paper or burning it for warmth.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Brasil in the 80s.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Let me get back to you on that in a few months.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Winter is coming.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can tell you wholeheartedly based strictly on the size and quality of my garlic harvest that this past winter was incredibly fucking cold where I live at least

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You needed a garlic harvest to tell you that?

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No? Do you need someone to read what i wrote for you?

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

...based strictly on the size and quality of my garlic harvest that this past winter was incredibly fucking cold

Lol yeah?

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, he has no say, she could blow it allon Funko Pops if she wanted.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 71 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Let's remind everyone what this about. He said she lied about being raped and 12 civil jurors (still jurors) decided that she didn't lie and that she was raped.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I still can't get over the President of the USA being a convicted rapist

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, so... "Convicted of rape" is a legal term for criminal court. Both "convicted" and "rape" carry legal definitions distinct from the civil version "found liable for sexual assault."

I know it's splitting hairs, but that's what lawyers do.

Civil court cannot impose jail time and does not have a criminal component. Proceedings for each can be had with separate outcomes. Prime example, OJ Simpson. Not guilty of murder, but found liable for death.

Stupid as fuck.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] III@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

But we’re not talking in a legal context. The form of sexual assault he was found liable for was very much rape by the standard definition, which is more the correct definition than the legal one.

[–] finley@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then he said she lied about that, and another jury awarded her another $83 million. Still waiting for that payout, by the way.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

More eventual retirement money invested in the market then.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

WTAF? Since when does the criminal have any say in how their fine is spent?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

Was that a defamatory remark from the defamator-in-chief, again? Cha-ching!

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I see what you did there.

And while we all know what an impulsive and dim-witted narcissist President Trump is - and the fact that he's been found liable for sexual assault, and maintained a years-long association with Jeffrey Epstein, it is noteworthy that:

He knows not to make this mistake again, namely of openly stating that she lied.

But I can certainly be wrong. He might just do it again. We'll see.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

If I was in the press corps, that's the first question I'd ask. "Predisent Trump, you were recently forced to pay 5 million dollars to E. Jean Carroll for her claim that you raped her. How do you respond to that?"

Whatever he said would have to be worth another 100 million or something.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's her money. She can do whatever she wants with it

[–] Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

Ask him about his family's crypto scams

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Die Trump, die. Take your rotten offspring with you and join all the ghouls down in hell.

[–] killea@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No one who speaks German could be an evil man.

[–] killea@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Joey Joe Joe!!

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's my next concern, how do we get rid of the offspring?

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

So he tried to steal her money but found he couldn't.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bullies gotta bully.

[–] FoolishObserver@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's probably waiting until the new dollar coins get minted so he can pay in currency with his face on it because he is a petty little man.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I keep expecting him to simultaneously announce they are discontinuing paper ones with the stupid dollar coin.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

No vending machine on the planet will take them.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

The money remained safely in cris? I was not aware of this...

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I were E, I'd consider buying ad space to display my market gains. Maybe a billboard, definitely a website. Possibly hire a guy to make a statue for the national mall. Idk, I'd have some fun with this.

I'm all about finding the thing that would piss him off most, and investing heavily in that.

Billboard at the entrance to Maralago.