Trump Gets Triggered By Looming Criminal Charges & Melts Down

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Only one question. Did Trump hire her because he expected the judge and jury to react to a pretty woman the way he does or did he hire her because when he's assessed a massive penalty he can use her incompetence as grounds for an appeal?

 

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"Huge monetary award": Legal experts warn jury may hit Trump hard to "shut him up" amid new attacks​

"This trial could answer the question of whether any amount of damages can silence Trump," attorney says​

By AREEBA SHAH​

ormer President Donald Trump is facing trial again in New York this week to determine additional damages for defaming former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her sexual assault allegations.

A federal jury will begin deciding how much the former president owes the writer. It’s the second trial to be held in a pair of cases against Trump brought by Carroll.

In a prior civil lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room nearly 30 years ago and defaming her. Last year, a jury ruled in favor of Carroll, finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and awarded her $5 million in damages.

“The jury has the power to impose substantial punitive damages on Trump for raping Ms. Carroll, then branding her accusation as made-up and then repeatedly castigating her in public and social posts as crazy and ‘whacky,’” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon.

The longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine first came forward with the allegations in an excerpt from her book in New York Magazine. Then-President Trump accused Carroll of fabricating a story to ....

Experts: Trump risks “far heavier” punishment for attacks on Carroll

"This trial could answer the question of whether any amount of damages can silence Trump," attorney says.

www.salon.com

 

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"bomb threats" etc #322

A precedent is being set here, allowing Trump to frolic freely, despite being a traitor. It's obviously very dangerous to allow this to continue in Trump's case. BUT !!

What about the next time?

""Huge monetary award": Legal experts warn jury may hit Trump hard to "shut him up"" #323​

Won't work.
The MAGA's whined bitterly that persecuting Trump would interfere with Trump's political campaign.
Many reports indicate Trump's litigation issues have become a prominent feature of Trump's political campaign.

 

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Hit him with a big monetary award and he'll just beg his followers for money - the grift will continue.

 

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An important distinction

 

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Expert: Trump "defamed" E. Jean Carroll again on Truth Social while sitting in same courtroom​

Trump's Truth Social account fired off numerous posts about Carroll while he was phoneless in court​

By TATYANA TANDANPOLIE​

ormer President Donald Trump fired off more than 30 posts in 40 minutes targeting E. Jean Carroll as his second defamation trial got underway Tuesday as the two appeared in the same room together for the first time in years, according to CNN. Trump lobbed a flurry of attacks at Carroll and the federal judge presiding over the ex-columnist's defamation trial against the former president. "I am waiting to get into the courtroom for the Carroll proceedings, but the bizarre advantage of still being outside is learning Trump has yet again defamed Carroll on Truth Social," MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin reported.

In one post, which he later reposted, Trump wrote, "Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman’s fake story?!” over a video clip of Carroll. He also authored several posts raging at the writer and U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who last week applied restrictions on what Trump and his lawyers could discuss during the trial, dubbing Carroll's lawsuit "attempted extortion" in one and in others accusing Kaplan of hating him and calling on the judge to "put this whole corrupt, Crooked Joe Biden-directed Election Interference attack on me immediately to rest." Trump also shared more than a dozen screenshots of what appear to be posts about sex from Carroll's social media accounts.

"Trump's Truth Social account is mass attacking E. Jean Carroll while he sits (phoneless) in court and prospective jurors are beginning to gather," Politico's Kyle Cheney wrote on X, formerly Twitter, citing Politico reporter Erica Orden. "We'll see what, if anything, Judge Kaplan has to say about this..." Orden added. Last Wednesday, Kaplan barred Trump and his team from — among other matters — denying he sexually abused Carroll, holding that "the material facts concerning the alleged sexual assault already have been determined, and this trial will not be a ‘do over’ of the previous trial."

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Expert: Trump "defamed" E. Jean Carroll again on Truth Social in court

Trump's Truth Social account fired off numerous posts about Carroll while he was phoneless in court.

www.salon.com

 

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"Hit him with a big monetary award and he'll just beg his followers for money - the grift will continue." S2 #325

One way to block that would be a law against using political campaign donations for that purpose. BUT !!
U.S. legislators would prefer not to have such a statutory prohibition, in case they find themselves in such situation.

That's politics, U.S. style.

Trump's Truth Social account fired off numerous posts about Carroll while he was phoneless in court​

By TATYANA TANDANPOLIE​

I suspect / hope the law judge self-restrains here to avoid the backlash that would result from restraining Trump, if for example Trump's bail was revoked, & Trump incarcerated.

But it does bear at least the superficial appearance of judicial cowardice.

 

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Trump Ordered to Pay E. Jean Carroll $83 Million​

A jury ruled that the frontrunner to land the GOP presidential nomination needs to pay up for repeatedly defaming the author over sexual harassment claims
BY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ

A NEW YORK jury ruled on Friday that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in total damages for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault.

Trump, the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination for president, must pay the author $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in reputation repair damages, and $65 million in putative damages. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in a separate defamation ruling last May.

Carroll has now twice successfully sued Trump in civil court. All of the former president’s rantings and ravings about Carroll online and at his rallies did little more than strengthen the plaintiff’s argument that ....

Trump Ordered to Pay E. Jean Carroll $83 Million

Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83 million for defamation restitution, a jury determined on Friday.

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Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies​

Donald Trump warns there will be chaos if his criminal cases hurt his 2024 campaign. Democrats are already facing a wave of violent threats.
ADAM RAWNSLEY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG

AT THE START of this election year, Donald Trump spoke of “bedlam” breaking out if criminal prosecutions prevent him from retaking the White House. But the chaos the former president is threatening isn’t an abstraction. It’s already here, barely a month into 2024.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently warned of “a deeply disturbing spike in threats against those who serve the public.” Last month, his top deputy said the Department of Justice is receiving urgent reports of threats to public officials “on a weekly basis.” Around the country, election officials in key battleground states say they are devoting unprecedented resources to election and physical security, and are bracing for an increasingly hellish 2024 to come.

The man who has inspired much of the wave of threats and intimidation efforts directed at politicians, judges, prosecutors, and other officials is not disturbed by any of this. Trump has stressed to close allies that if those individuals — who he says are “harassing” him or trying to “cheat” him out of the 2024 election — simply did what he wanted, the torrent of death threats would stop immediately, two people with knowledge ...

Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies

Donald Trump warns there will be chaos if his criminal cases hurt his 2024 campaign. Democrats are already facing a wave of violent threats.

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"Trump Ordered to Pay E. Jean Carroll $83 Million​

Carroll has now twice successfully sued Trump in civil court." #329

... and still the Republican front-runner.

Trump: "The Political Threats Will Stop … When "​

Doesn't that demonstrate Trump culpability? If it was merely a prediction wouldn't the correct word have been "should" instead of the word "will"?

 

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When you file an appeal in NY, you may have to put up the amount of judgment for court to hold for the length of the appeal process... and pay the interest earned. So he's already put up the 5 million from the original case. So court has it. Same if he appeals this 83 million. For scale, his Park Ave bldg is valued at 84 million.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-sets-aside-money-while-he-appeals-e-jean-carrolls-5-million-verdict-2023-06-23/

There's also the NY fraud trial judgment amount, which could be upwards of $370 million. It's believed that Trump doesn't have that kind of cash in the bank. His net worth is in real estate. He'll either have to sell assets or declare bankruptcy. At which point the state will take his assets and fire sale them just to get the money.

 

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"When you file an appeal in NY, you may have to put up the amount of judgment for court to hold for the length of the appeal process... " #332

You read my mind here S2.
What I don't know is for how many more years Trump's legal woes will persist.

 

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"Trump Ordered to Pay E. Jean Carroll $83 Million" #329​

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  Rudy Giuliani has claimed that Donald Trump could owe him 'unpaid legal fees' in a new filing​

  Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claims he could be owed "unpaid legal fees" in a new bankruptcy filing.
  

 

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Trump’s Secret Plan to Expand Presidential Immunity to ‘King George’ Levels​

Tired of being criminally prosecuted, Donald Trump and his allies are plotting a way to give presidents a legal shield for life if he wins in 2024
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, ADAM RAWNSLEY

This month, Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued in a federal appeals court that he, as a former American president, is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution, possibly even if he were to order the assassination of his political enemies. But the arguments that Trump’s lawyers are currently litigating in public are just a preview of Trump and his allies’ private plans to dramatically expand presidential immunity, if he defeats Joe Biden in the 2024 election.

According to two sources who have discussed the topic with the ex-president since last year, Trump and people close to him intend to expand a Nixon-era memo from the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel that has effectively prohibited the department from prosecuting sitting presidents for decades. Some Trump advisers and others familiar with these discussions say they plan to have a thoroughly Trumpified OLC issue a new memo, which would advise that ...

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I doubt Trump's experience as a politician met his most indulgent fantasies. But I doubt Trump ever ruled out " a legal shield for life if he wins in 2024" or a 2nd term if Biden hadn't beat him.
What Trump might have wished to keep secret is his reasoning. Trump might prefer to not go nucular, but better that than prison.

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Congress (& corporate board members) can vote themselves a $pay $raise. Is that so much more unethical than President Trump attempting to adjust the law so Trump can evade the consequences of his own criminal misconduct before, during, and after his first presidential term?

The Chiefs / 49ers 2024 superbowl should be interesting. SCOTUS affect on the 2024 Trump campaign should be more consequential, even if not as exciting. S2, Trump is a loose bull in a china shop showroom crammed full of fragile works of art and other irreplaceable merchandise. & he don't care

 

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"Trump doesn't have an appeal": Experts say Trump may fire lawyer after being "burned very severely"​

Legal experts skewered Alina Habba's "comedy of bumbling errors" in Trump defamation trial​

By TATYANA TANDANPOLIE​

Former President Donald Trump's appeal of the $83.3 million verdict in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll is unlikely to succeed, legal experts say.

"Let me ruin the suspense for everyone. Trump doesn't have an appeal," Nashville lawyer Brian Manookian argued Friday. "I know the talking heads on TV who have never tried a case or appealed a jury verdict have to mention it. Here's why it isn't going to fly."

A person must "preserve a reversible error at the trial level" in order to have a case with merit on appeal, Manookian explained, ultimately blaming Trump's lack thereof on his legal team in the case.

"This is why you hire competent counsel. You need someone who actually knows the rules of evidence and procedure," he said. "Alina Habba had no clue what was occurring throughout the trial. She not only failed to preserve any remote grounds for appeal, like a moron, she repeatedly and unintentionally ....

Experts say Trump may fire lawyer after being "burned very severely"

Legal experts skewered Alina Habba's "comedy of bumbling errors" in Trump defamation trial.

www.salon.com

 

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"This is why you hire competent counsel." TT #337

Trump has a reputation for not paying those that have served him well.
Some reports indicate Trump has literally thousands of court cases in his own history.

So it seems plausible Trump exhausted his supply of competent representation, and ended up scraping the bottom of the barrel for this trial. DJ ! It's called "karma".

 

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"Yelling at the judge": Carroll lawyers say Alina Habba "acted more like a lawyer" with Trump absent​

Habba's "yelling" was "unbelievably nerve-wrecking each time it happened," says attorney Roberta Kaplan​

Carroll lawyers say Habba "acted more like a lawyer" with Trump absent

Habba's "yelling" was "unbelievably nerve-wrecking each time it happened," says attorney Roberta Kaplan.

www.salon.com

Trying to act like Trump thinks a lawyer should behave or simply grandstanding for her client?

 

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When a trial attorney has the facts & the law on his side he pounds the facts and the law.
When not, he pounds the table.

If Trump had a legitimate argument here, his legal team could make that argument at trial, persuasively, and win the case.
Since not, yell.

Trump is a desperate man. Many interesting books will be written about these Trump years, and the bizarre egotism driving him. So far, the newspaper accounts are "exciting". So is falling off a bridge.