Former President Donald Trump was recently warned against using his 2024 campaign funds to pay E. Jean Carroll, after being ordered to pay the former columnist stemming from a defamation lawsuit.
On Monday, Dave Aronberg, the state attorney in Florida’s Palm Beach County, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and spoke about the recent jury ruling in New York, which ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements he made about her in 2019.
“He’s got to post a bond just to appeal within 30 days of the judgment. So E. Jean Carroll will get her money at some point,” Aronberg said. “He can try to get money from his supporters, but he’s got to tell them what it’s for…He can’t say, ‘Help me with my re-election fund’ and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime.”
Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million after he was found liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle columnist in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, bashed Carroll and said she wasn’t his “type,” prompting the second lawsuit she brought against the former president.
He can’t say, ‘Help me with my re-election fund’ and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime."
Fucking lol. As if something being a crime would ever stop him from doing it. What’s anyone going to do? Fine him? Rinse and repeat. The bullshit won’t end until the motherfucker is dead or in prison and only one of those things is ever going to happen.
At this point I’m cheering on McDonald’s to kill him by cholesterol with a big mac
Someone told Donald Trump not to do a thing? He’s totally going to do that thing now, just to spite this random person, isn’t he?
yeah but this one could be straight up jail time if he lived to be 97 when he would be convicted of it
Trump. He doesn’t want fair and speedy trials. His primary tactic is to delay until the other side just gives up. He may not be able to get the US government to “just give up” like he does with the contractors and lawyers he stiffs, but his tactics of indefinite delay still work like a charm.
From Late Night with Seth Meyers last night-
I love how this is the question on everyone’s mind.
“Oh man. He’s gonna pay that with donor money isn’t he”
Wait I thought that John Oliver episode basically showed you could use super pac money for whatever the fuck you want. Is there some reason it doesn’t work like that for this?
Committing campaign finance violations is considered a serious crime when it happens. The thing is that you have to go so far out of your way to get anyone to notice or care that you might as well be on a different planet. Thing is, Trump already started off on a different planet and has been travelling further and further away ever since.
I think you need to show that the money was spent on something sort of connected: A private jet to a spa day to make you look good for a debate. I’m not sure I necessarily understand it any better, but that was what I understand it to be.
No, super pacs can go to anything. But the candidate can have no control over the funds. 😉
