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A federal judge formally ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll, endorsing the jury’s verdict from the defamation trial last month.

The judgment was made in a one-page order on Thursday.

The issuance of the judgment takes Carroll one step closer to obtaining her award, but it is only the beginning of a process that can take months or longer to play out, in part depending on how long the appeals process lasts.

This will be the second judgment Carroll has won against Trump. Last year a jury awarded her $5 million in damages after finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation for denying Carroll’s rape allegation, saying she wasn’t his type, and suggesting she made up the story to sell copies of a book.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oo! Twice in one day! And on a Saturday no less!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And on a Saturday no less!

The CNN article was from Thursday, the day the ruling actually happened. The fact that it took two days for the story to hit Lemmy is less than ideal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That's lemme for you. One thing I miss about Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

Sounds like someone in the Middle East is about to get a sweet deal on some more top secret documents…

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

His checks never clear. I guess we get to find out if you can get blood from a stone. Cause her lawyers are going to hound him until the day he dies, or until he sells MaraLago

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

He has to write a check to her or as an appeal bond. If he doesn't, the defendant can ask the court to attach asset in lieu of payment. Since the original 5 million is still outstanding, I reckon that's 88 million.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You can from a precious stone 😜

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What, you'd take a personal check from that guy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did she get the first payment?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He's appealing, but he's had to turn the money over to the court for them to hold onto while he appeals.

He plans to appeal this verdict as well, but getting the money together to do so may prove harder. I read an article on the complexities but can't find it. There were all sorts of potential problems, especially given the expected judgement from his NY fraud trial: he doesn't have enough actual cash on hand, his political money has some limits on it (and there's not enough anyway), there aren't many NY authorized bondsmen approved for that amount of money and those that are won't like his history of stiffing creditors, reputable institutions won't like lending to someone who traditionally stiffs them, it's unlikely anyone will accept his real estate as collateral because the fraud trial is likely to dissolve his NY real estate empire and repayment would be tied up for years, etc, etc. So getting the money from reputable sources is going to be difficult, and there'll be a lot of scrutiny on where the money comes from. My best guess is that he'll do some public money laundering like he did before: offer more shitty NFTs or maybe trump-crypto or something, and the Russians and Saudis will invest in their very own potential US President - you know he'll pull the US out of Ukraine and NATO and whatever else Putin wants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He has not turned that money over yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

She doesn't have it, and won't until the appeals are done, but my understanding is that the money has been turned over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thats about the $5M not the $83M

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes? OP's question was literally

Did she get the first payment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was also thinking they meant the 83m from this story. I was also wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He has to liquidate his property in NY, doesn’t he? Maybe that will cover it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

No he doesn't. It could happen though