This is news that will brighten your day. Well, unless you’re one of Politizoom’s conservative lurkers. To them I say “Suck it – your boy is a LOSER!’ Trump lost a defamation case to E. Jean Carroll. She was awarded $5 million and while he should have just paid it and moved on this is Trump and he couldn’t keep his fat mouth shut. So they had a second lawsuit, and THIS one led to an $83 million judgement. Trump of course appealed and utilized the federal courts since he felt his comments were part of his being President. Well, the appeals court has (again) ruled and lets just say it’s a bad day to be a ketchup bottle within reach of Trumpty’s tiny hands.
This will be uncharacteristically (for me) short and sweet. As this short article from CBS News tells us the 2nd circuit has AGAIN denied a Trump appeal regarding the legal penalties he’s on the hook for due to his defamation of Carroll:
“We hold that the district court did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury’s duly rendered damages awards were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case,” three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit wrote in a unanimous opinion.
It doesn’t get any blunter than that. Even a MAGA goober can understand language that simple. Ok, they might have to have egregious explained to them but I think they’ll get the point. It bein a unanimous decision that basically said Trump and his legal arguments was a boatload of bullshit will drive the point home. The linked article is short and easily worth than the less than a minute it takes to read. I want to emphasize that it makes the point this same Circuit has already upheld the $5 million ruling in the first case.
Now, in even stronger language the Circuit is telling Trump ‘shut up and pay up and don’t waste any more of our time.’ With thoughts of a metaphor about Trump should attempt a certain quaint anatomical impossibility than continue his dumbass appeals. Will Trump actually try to get SCOTUS to take up the case? Who knows? He needs distractions from Epstein but using a legal matter in which he’s been adjudicated of having committed sexual assault, and THAT only because of a squirrely technicality that didn’t allow to use the term rape might not be the best vehicle.
Trump for maybe the first time in his despicable life is flush with cash thanks to his crypto scheme. He’d be smart just to pay Carroll, endure a couple of days of getting hammered and then everyone would move on. Trump however is… well TRUMP. I don’t see him letting go of this.
I also don’t see SCOTUS wanting any part of this case. It only takes four Justices agreeing to do so to grant Cert but I don’t see it happening. Roberts of course would say no. And Brewski Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t want any part of having to deal with such a tawdry matter given his own history. The three Democratic appointees would say no. That leaves Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett. While the first two have their heads surgically attached up Trump’s rectum and would vote yes I don’t see BOTH Barrett and Gorsuch going along. At least one and probably both would say no. It’s just a question of how long they will take to issue one of those ‘the appellant’s petition for Cert is denied.
By now Trumpty knows the appeals court has left him on the hook for a combined (two different lawsuits) $88 million. PLUS interest! I suspect they’ve already duct-taped the oven mitts to Trumpty’s hands so he can’t go off on Truth Social or even dial his phone to call up his pals at Fox. However at some point he’ll chew those suckers off and if no one around to stop him his rage will have grown to a point where we’ll have another epic meltdown. Stay tuned.
He might be flush with money, but he certainly would NEVER voluntarily part with it. Given how he doesn’t even like to pay contractors who have delivered on their ends, you know he won’t just pay it and let it be over.
Given the expense of raping Ms. Carroll…he should’ve stuck with underage girls. Amerika…how the hell do you look yourself in the mirror?
” he should have stuck with underage girls”
NOOOOOOOO, Scott. Just NOOOOOOOOOO. Please say you can’t mean that! I voted you down for the first time (though I have been tempted a few times).
He’s on the hook for 88 million to Ms. Carroll. Raping children has cost him NOTHING. See the point?
Considering Clarence Thomas’s own contentious history involving some sexual shenanigans and a female employee of his prior to his getting on the Supreme Court (let’s just remember that Anita Hill faced more grilling over the matter than Thomas did), I really can’t see him being all too willing to grant cert.
On the whole “cert” thing, I’ve never really understood why a *minority* of the Court is enough to get a case heard. Even in the Senate, it requires 60 votes to end a filibuster and bring a bill to a floor vote but the same bill can then pass and become law with only 51 votes but granting cert for SCOTUS is bass-ackwards. Is the reasoning because the ones granting cert think they can convince at least one other justice to rule in favor when no one’s even heard any actual arguments–not even the ones granting cert?
Satire anyone? Geez.