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.
Wait I thought that John Oliver episode basically showed you could use super pac money for whatever the fuck you want. Is there some reason it doesn’t work like that for this?
Committing campaign finance violations is considered a serious crime when it happens. The thing is that you have to go so far out of your way to get anyone to notice or care that you might as well be on a different planet. Thing is, Trump already started off on a different planet and has been travelling further and further away ever since.
I think you need to show that the money was spent on something sort of connected: A private jet to a spa day to make you look good for a debate. I’m not sure I necessarily understand it any better, but that was what I understand it to be.
No, super pacs can go to anything. But the candidate can have no control over the funds. 😉
But my fail son can control the funds and everything will be above board
All true.
Disgustingly true
But the “campaign” itself cannot.
Garrett: "Well, as you know, with PACs like this, we’re not allowed to have direct contact with candidates…
…I’m kidding! I’m Garrett Romney. Mitt’s my dad. But here’s the thing, Jack. My Brother-Dad, which is Mormon for “Dad”, has more money than he knows what to do with."
Jack: “With all due respect, Garrett, I don’t think that’s a thing.”