Former President Donald Trump was recently warned against using his 2024 campaign funds to pay E. Jean Carroll, after being ordered to pay the former columnist stemming from a defamation lawsuit.

On Monday, Dave Aronberg, the state attorney in Florida’s Palm Beach County, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and spoke about the recent jury ruling in New York, which ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements he made about her in 2019.

“He’s got to post a bond just to appeal within 30 days of the judgment. So E. Jean Carroll will get her money at some point,” Aronberg said. “He can try to get money from his supporters, but he’s got to tell them what it’s for…He can’t say, ‘Help me with my re-election fund’ and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime.”

Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million after he was found liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle columnist in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, bashed Carroll and said she wasn’t his “type,” prompting the second lawsuit she brought against the former president.

  • originalucifer
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    2610 months ago

    yeah but this one could be straight up jail time if he lived to be 97 when he would be convicted of it

    • @dhork
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      1510 months ago

      He is collecting criminal charges like they’re power-ups, though. It helps him build support.

    • Optional
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      1310 months ago

      The jan 6 traitors already got six months. Can’t even do that for this demented rapist fraud.

    • Match!!
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      610 months ago

      whatever happened to fair and speedy trials?

      don’t say reagan

      • @Nightwingdragon
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        410 months ago

        Trump. He doesn’t want fair and speedy trials. His primary tactic is to delay until the other side just gives up. He may not be able to get the US government to “just give up” like he does with the contractors and lawyers he stiffs, but his tactics of indefinite delay still work like a charm.