- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
A jury last year ordered Trump to pay the columnist $83 million in damages.
American taxpayers will not be paying for the ongoing appeal of Donald Trump’s $83 million defamation case, a federal appeals court determined on Wednesday.
A panel of judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Trump’s request to have Justice Department lawyers argue in his appeal of columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump.
A New York jury last year ordered Trump to pay the former Elle magazine columnist $83.3 million in damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her accusation that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has denied all allegations.
And there’s the grift. Because that cannot happen. It’s a blank check for the corrupt.
The ‘best’ part is that when Dems get to power, they’ll need to tax to fill the pit and tve MAGA GQP can start their propaganda anew
The simple solution, and thus the one that won’t even be considered, is to tax the rich and fund the IRS to actually enforce those cases instead of low hanging fruit. Reinstituting the 90% top tax bracket with no exceptions and it fills a lot of that gap immediately.
Except that mainline establishment Democrats are just as beholden to the 1% as the Republicans.
I did say it wouldn’t even be considered.
Trump already spooked the bond market after announcing his tarriffs. He’s also criticising Powell. The US will default before Trump takes his snout out of the trough.