• Donald Trump has to cut a fat check, and his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict won’t delay that.
  • Within 30 days of the judge’s written judgment, Trump has to turn over either cash or a bond.
  • While he appeals the verdict, Carroll can’t touch that money — but neither can Trump.
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33 points

He doesn’t have it to hand over. That’s over three times what the judge in his fraud trial said Mar-a-Lago was worth (Trump claimed it was worth $1 billion).

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He doesn’t have it to hand over

Yes he does. He has to either pay the judgement to her, or put it in escrow if he plans to appeal.

That’s over three times what the judge in his fraud trial said Mar-a-Lago was worth (Trump claimed it was worth $1 billion).

I don’t understand this statement. Are you suggesting that the reason you think he doesn’t have to pay is because it’s a lot of money?

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67 points

I think you misread what I wrote.

I said “He doesn’t have it to hand over” not “he doesn’t have to hand it over.”

He doesn’t have it to hand over because he’s not that rich.

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38 points

Shoot, my bad, you’re right. I misread that as “he doesn’t have to hand it over”.

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19 points

Wow, yeah, my brain absolutely read “He doesn’t have to hand it over” 😂

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4 points

Even after you clarified here I still had to analyse those sentences for the difference

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I’m not the person you replied to, but I believe the person is saying “he doesn’t have it, so therefore he cannot hand over something he doesn’t have.”

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Yep, that was my mistake.

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Yes he does. He has to either pay the judgement to her, or put it in escrow if he plans to appeal

No he doesn’t. I hate trump as much as anyone else, but all he has to do is get someone else to post bond (he will still have to provide a percentage to cover). There is a long list of people/companies/countries that would take that gamble assuming he gets reelected.

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6 points

Time for more fundraising!

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Of course he can. He just can’t say it’s to help him get reelected. Smartest thing for him to do right now is spin up another set of “ai” nft images for his fan base to buy, to “help with the prosecution” he is suffering.

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He cannot use campaign funds but PACs are not the same thing and Trump has directed much of his fundraising into PACs. The courts have shown zero willingness to address this because a PAC is a corporation and corporation are imaginary people and since the rules don’t apply to billionaires, the rules definitely don’t matter to imaginary ones.

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He will grift it from his donors, like he always does.

That’s less than $2 per 2020 Trump voter, and he gets more popular every time a judgment goes against him.

At some point it will run out but I don’t think this is the last straw.

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