Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.
The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump won’t have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court.
A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in January 2024. Another jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and then defamed her after she published her account of it in 2019.
She should have the sheriff show up at Mar-A-Lago and put locks on the door. That’s what they do for non-billionaires. No one is above the law forever.
He still hasn’t paid that? WTF? There is no enforcement for anything anymore? Hey everyone…grab your looting bags…it’s on!!
Oh he won’t ever pay what he owes. Cops like him and he’s going to fight anything tooth and nail claiming he’s being politically persecuted
Smith told the 2nd Circuit that Trump “will suffer irreparable harm” if he must pay Carroll now because she has said publicly that she plans to give the award away, meaning the president would not be able to recover the money if the high court reverses the verdict.
Smith said there was a “reasonable probability” that the Supreme Court will take up an appeal in part based on Trump’s insistence that he has absolute immunity from a lawsuit stemming from statements he made while he was president.
Just a bonkers legal system we have.
They can say that but of course he might die. So if he doesn’t pay before he dies then she might not be able to collect. So I don’t think they have much of a case here.
Wouldn’t his estate have to pay?
He is planning on giving it all away to charity
Well he can claim that certainly, but that’s not how Estates work. Bequeaths come after debts.
Well, Chewbacca was a wookie from Endor, but there are no wookies on Endor, so obviously the judgment must be thrown out
Not the Chewbacca Defense!!!
Oh fuck. It’s Johnnie Cochran! I agree, this does not. Make. Sense!
Some pigs are more equal than others
If Americans were allowed books, they’d be really angry about this.
🎶 O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave 🎶 O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Four legs good.
Two legs better.
One foot in the grave.
It’s all about the pledge to the fascists.
trump. lawsuits distract me from being president so I can’t pay them. also trump. its fine that I sue the government I run for monies because it totally does not distract me.
and run all these businesses
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Well, to be fair…he’s spending your money on all that other stuff. /s
… Hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory …
Trump’s version of praying?
