Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in damages for repeatedly defaming her, a jury found Friday.

The nine-person jury began deliberations in federal court in New York at 1:40 p.m. ET and reached a verdict in just under three hours.

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This is different. All his properties in New York are under receivership. If and when they are forcibly sold to pay the judgement in the New York Civil fraud trial any remaining funds will go directly to E. Jean Carroll as she will be a lien holder on those assets.

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Judgment creditors are last in line, the government is first. He won’t have anything left over.

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It won’t matter he will just delay and appeal till he dies and then his kids will do the same thing and sue to keep it from ever happening

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Appeals are not an infinite process, and as we have already seem multiple times just this month the New York State Court of Appeals has either denied his requests for appeal or swiftly ruled against him. Sometimes the rock hard cock of the law does catch up with you.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

Edit: I changed my initial statement because I forgot this case was in federal court not state court.

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What did MLK say about the “rock hard cock of the law?”

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IIRC he has to put up a cash bond equal to the value of the judgement in order to appeal it. In other words he has to come up with $83.3 million in cash in order to appeal. I’m not sure he has that even if he raids the campaign fund.

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Well that’s at least good to know

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If.

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