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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[–] 125 points 3 months ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 97 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 57 points 3 months ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago*

    I’ll grant you your point for convicted, but not rape. 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.

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  • [–] 110 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    Ask him about his family's crypto scams

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    The money remained safely in cris? I was not aware of this... It really feels like someone should have told me...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Bullies gotta bully.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 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.

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