His daughter and son in law have a couple billion. Surely they’ll help ole dad out.
Hahaha
If she actually ends up in court over it, I’ll find it amusing if she hires and pays for a competent attorney that follows the rules of the court and takes care of this without a while lot of fanfare.
Granted, even the most competent attorney won’t be able to help her if she goes full Trump and starts doubling down on the defamation thing every chance she gets.
While we know she’s been an awful lawyer, I’ll give her a small amount of credit because she had an even more awful client. While plenty of her mistakes are going to end up costing Trump money, the vast majority of it is his fault. Even OJ’s Dream Team wouldn’t have been able to keep him out of jail if he was murdering people throughout the trial.
Well, you know what they said about the client of those who represent themselves…
Even drug addicts can be sexually assaulted.
A verdict in the New York fraud trial is due next week. If Judge Engoron fines Trump the full amount requested — $370M — he (Trump) may have to go through the sofa cushions to satisfy both that and Carroll.
I’d subscribe to a PPV to watch.
Only if they blur out the butt crack.
It would be interesting to see if the NY judgment is large also, whether Trump would decide to declare bankrupcy for a 6th time. Personally, I’d love to see an actual accounting of his net worth done for real, and the downside of a loss to his reputation as a businessman during an election year might not be so big considering his idiot followers and his ability to lie about stuff.
I doubt it would come to that, there’s still pkenty more grifting to be done. But it would be interesting.
I’m curious if there’s any truth to this allegation at all. Only because, well, not only because, but the timing seems odd that she’d accuse someone (every accusation) of being a drug addict just a day after we started hearing reports that the White House Pharmacy was handing out pills like candy while Trump was in office.
Through in-person inspections and interviews with over 120 officials, the report concluded “that the White House Medical Unit provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services to ineligible White House staff in violation of Federal law and regulation and DoD policy. Additionally, the White House Medical Unit dispensed prescription medications, including controlled substances, to ineligible White House staff.”
Also, they spent an ungodly amount on name brand meds
The report found that between 2017-2019, the White House “spent an estimated $46,500 for brand name Ambien, which is 174 times more expensive than the generic equivalent,” and “an estimated $98,000 for brand name Provigil, which is 55 times more expensive than the generic equivalent.”
It’s a huge moral victory. Now I want E. Jean Carroll to get her money ASAP. She is 80 years old, and justice delayed is justice denied.
That’s true, but that smile on her face as she left the courthouse was priceless.
But I too hope she gets paid in full pronto.
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I have two jury questions, if anyone knows the answer (google isn’t getting the job done for me)
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For the award, how does the jury have to negotiate? Is it necessarily unanimous? Being civil, I doubt it. But could 2/3 of the jury force the award onto (say) 1/3 MAGA supporters?
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I thought I read that at least some of the jurors were self-described Trump voters, but now I can’t find that. Does anyone know if that’s true?
For context, I’m trying to understand how assailable the jury is from the MAGA perspective.
I would imagine Trump will delay this as long as possible and then some.
I fully expect that Carroll’s estate is going to eventually get the money from Trump’s estate.
Federal civil trials require a unanimous jury verdict on all questions. So, yes, they have to negotiate.
It wouldn’t relieve him of the Carroll verdict debt:
Dischargeability depends upon what else the jury concludes. The Bankruptcy Code says that debts based on liability “for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to property of another entity” are specifically excluded from the scope of the bankruptcy discharge.
More speculation on the effect that Trump’s behaviour may have had on the jury:
A retired federal judge and one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Alex Jones defamation case both say that Trump’s behaviour likely cost him:
I would have been a juror who was arguing for a 9 figure settlement.
It doesn’t sound like there were many objections – just two and a half hours for the jury to make their decision, and for a larger amount than most were expecting. And I agree with the article that @Northern_Piper posted, except I don’t think that the egregiously disrespectful behaviour by both Habba and her orange client “may” have turned the jury against Trump – I think by the time the trial was over, the jury had the same seething hatred for both of them that I did from merely reading about their antics.
Of course I’m a bit biased. My blood pressure goes up about 10 points every time I even catch sight of his bloviating orange mug.
The judge tightly controlled jury selection, and it doesn’t look like any known partisans made it onto the jury.
ETA: Perhaps you are thinking of the original jury in the first case?
I heard his idiot attorney on the radio claiming what a solid case they had for appeal. She said that he had the right, but was refused the opportunity, to defend himself.
Yes, idiot, that’s what the trial that he couldn’t be bothered to attend was for.