President Donald Trump is complaining to a federal court about the millions of dollars he was recently forced to pay out in the long-running defamation case brought and won by writer E. Jean Carroll.

Now, with the money already in Carroll’s possession, Trump’s legal team is alleging that Carroll’s legal team misled the court.

“While the funds remained safely in CRIS, counsel assured this Court that they would be placed in an ‘interest-bearing account,’” the reply brief goes on. “After securing possession, Plaintiff disclosed that the funds were instead placed in a personal investment account for her retirement—and invoked the S&P 500 to justify keeping them there. That was not a clarification. It was a bait-and-switch on the precise assurance used to resist judicial intervention.”

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    13 hours ago

    WTAF? Since when does the criminal have any say in how their fine is spent?

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    Let’s remind everyone what this about. He said she lied about being raped and 12 civil jurors (still jurors) decided that she didn’t lie and that she was raped.

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        Ah, so… “Convicted of rape” is a legal term for criminal court. Both “convicted” and “rape” carry legal definitions distinct from the civil version “found liable for sexual assault.”

        I know it’s splitting hairs, but that’s what lawyers do.

        Civil court cannot impose jail time and does not have a criminal component. Proceedings for each can be had with separate outcomes. Prime example, OJ Simpson. Not guilty of murder, but found liable for death.

        Stupid as fuck.

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      Then he said she lied about that, and another jury awarded her another $83 million. Still waiting for that payout, by the way.

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    11 hours ago

    So he tried to steal her money but found he couldn’t.

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    In the US, the president gets to decide what you do with your money, I guess.

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      If he keeps doing what he’s doing, we’ll end up using it as toilet paper or burning it for warmth.

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          I can tell you wholeheartedly based strictly on the size and quality of my garlic harvest that this past winter was incredibly fucking cold where I live at least

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            You needed a garlic harvest to tell you that?

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              No? Do you need someone to read what i wrote for you?

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                …based strictly on the size and quality of my garlic harvest that this past winter was incredibly fucking cold

                Lol yeah?

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      Yeah, he has no say, she could blow it allon Funko Pops if she wanted.

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      I see what you did there.

      And while we all know what an impulsive and dim-witted narcissist President Trump is - and the fact that he’s been found liable for sexual assault, and maintained a years-long association with Jeffrey Epstein, it is noteworthy that:

      He knows not to make this mistake again, namely of openly stating that she lied.

      But I can certainly be wrong. He might just do it again. We’ll see.

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    Die Trump, die. Take your rotten offspring with you and join all the ghouls down in hell.

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    It’s her money. She can do whatever she wants with it

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    If I were E, I’d consider buying ad space to display my market gains. Maybe a billboard, definitely a website. Possibly hire a guy to make a statue for the national mall. Idk, I’d have some fun with this.

    I’m all about finding the thing that would piss him off most, and investing heavily in that.

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    He’s probably waiting until the new dollar coins get minted so he can pay in currency with his face on it because he is a petty little man.