Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

  • @Papergeist
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    247 months ago

    My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

    • @FrickAndMortar
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      67 months ago

      I remember reading at the start of Covid in the US, when the government was saying “masks are dumb”, but local churches were going “masks save lives”, the churches were surprised at how much pushback they were getting.

      Turns out raising someone from a young age to believe without questioning, and look up to one person as their only source of truth, and ignore compelling scientific evidence, is pretty hard conditioning to break.

      Shockedpikachuface.jpg, #leopardsatemyface, etc.

    • @KneeTitts
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      57 months ago

      My hypothesis is lead poisoning.

      Im sorry but how did you rule out Asbestos??

      • @[email protected]
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        197 months ago

        Doesn’t asbestos just give you mega asthma and giga cancer and not turn you into a soulless piece of shit?

          • @seth
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            27 months ago

            And water, when it’s in shingle or siding form. Wow this is a miraculous material, we ought to start using it for everything!

        • @KneeTitts
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          27 months ago

          Doesn’t asbestos just give you mega asthma

          I believe its also a carcinogen

          • @SoleInvictus
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            7 months ago

            That’s what causes the aforementioned giga cancer.

            Eighties and nineties peeps will remember:

            Do you or someone you know have mesothelioma?!

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              Hey dont rule us youngers out of knowing about those commercials, I remember them as late as 2009 or so.

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        Asbestos, while it has negative health implications, does not have a mind-altering component like lead poisoning.

      • @stoly
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        27 months ago

        Asbestos is more cancer-causing while lead does more of the developmental delay thing.