Post-Trump: III (decline, further tantrums, legal proceedings, book deals etc)
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tpetsch
...The rhythm has Control
News Flash:
Donald J. Trump has just been found liable for "Sexual Assault/Abuse", "Battery" and "Defamation" by a jury of 12 in a Manhattan Civil trial -not Criminal trial- against E. Jean Carroll.
$2 Million in damages for the Sexual Abuse, and $3 Million for the Defamation.
...Sadly he managed to skate the "Rape" charge.
Post note: The Trump campaign will appeal this verdict stating "Unconstitutional Silencing".
Donald J. Trump has just been found liable for "Sexual Assault/Abuse", "Battery" and "Defamation" by a jury of 12 in a Manhattan Civil trial -not Criminal trial- against E. Jean Carroll.
$2 Million in damages for the Sexual Abuse, and $3 Million for the Defamation.
...Sadly he managed to skate the "Rape" charge.
Post note: The Trump campaign will appeal this verdict stating "Unconstitutional Silencing".
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
Well, it's something. I guess the "She's not my type" defense doesn't really hold up.
NeilR
pfm Member
i think she is going to stand as an independent against him.
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
Trump guilty in civil rape case, jury awards damages of $5,000,000. I imagnie it was his deposition testimony that really cooked him. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...e-civil-sex-abuse-e-jean-carroll/70197179007/
matthewr
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I am hoping to go to the 2024 GOP Town Hall debates to ask the question:
"Have any of the panel been found to have committed "forcible touching" in a department store?"
Also it's important to note here that the jury only didn't find that he probably raped her because they couldn't it was impossible to be sure if he assaulted her with his finger or his mushroom.
"Have any of the panel been found to have committed "forcible touching" in a department store?"
Also it's important to note here that the jury only didn't find that he probably raped her because they couldn't it was impossible to be sure if he assaulted her with his finger or his mushroom.
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
In many jurisdictions any penetration with anything is rape. That seems the right way to view it.
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
Sadly it is.
Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
Proof (if any was needed). Here it is, in all its unabashed venality. Beneath Rees-Mogg’s cultivated veneer of non-conformist eccentricity is a deeply misogynist and truly vile rape apologist.
https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1656034228121812998
https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1656034228121812998
richardg
Admonishtrator
Should bury the dirty bastard for ever politically.
I strongly suspect that this is going to be the first of many, and as you say this will bury him.
awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
It's the US, don't bet on it.
tones
Tones deaf
I personally wouldn't - the whole Trump circus has taken on the aspect of a cult, where the leader can do no wrong, no matter how much actual wrong he does. Like it or not, Trump has activated dark forces lurking within the USA and has given them free rein. Edmund Burke famously said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Here's hoping that the USA can find enough of them.
Graham B
pfm Member
It is amazing that over the years he has managed to get away with so much, yet generally escaped any real negative consequences. Plenty of people have tried in various ways over the years to hold him to account yet he always seems able to dodge it, basically by refusing to accept either responsibility or punishment. This has created in his mind (or what passes for it) and those of his supporters a belief that he cannot be touched, and is somehow above any 'real' wrongdoing.
I know this recent case was civil and not criminal, but despite the verdict he will be able to appeal before ultimately paying the damages, and then just brush off the whole thing as unfair, and as a politically motivated with-hunt and nothing more.
Should the cases forming re. his actions in Georgia and on Jan 6th actually result in genuine punishment and see him locked up, it will destroy his myths, his brand, and (after some trouble no doubt) his support. At least, I hope so.
matthewr
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He's literally just been found liable for a list of sexual and legal assaults and given a $5m sanction.