- 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.
The reason he has to cough up the money is: he has to post bond before he’s allowed to appeal. So either he pays what he owes, or he puts up the money to ensure he pays after the appeal is overturned.
Ms. Carroll, unfortunately, won’t see that money for probably another year, but at least she can rest assured that Trump is going to lose that appeal. Even if he becomes Supreme Dictator in November, that money is gone.
I bet he can’t even cover the check, since it’s going to escrow and needs to be paid in full.
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).
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?
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.
Shoot, my bad, you’re right. I misread that as “he doesn’t have to hand it over”.
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.”
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.
He can’t do that either.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-warned-using-campaign-funds-pay-e-jean-carroll-1865016
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.
What’s to stop Trump doing the same thing that OJ has been doing for 25 years to avoid paying out to the families of the people he murdered in cold blood?
OJ declared bankruptcy. If Trump did that he’d be opening up his finances to a ton of scrutiny he doesn’t want. He’d also be admitting to the world that his status as a successful billionaire is pure horseshit.
Within 30 days of the judge’s written judgment, Trump has to turn over either cash or a bond.
This always, always begs the question: “or what?” Over and over we hear of what courts decide people “must” do, but when they are rich and/or powerful or honestly just stubborn enough, it doesn’t seem to have any teeth.
And I get it, there are a lot of things they can do, but they always seem to scared or complacent to do any of them. It’s getting real old reading about what Trump or Alex Jones or whoever “must” do without seeing them actually suffer consequences for not doing it.
In this case, Carroll can start taking possession of his assets herself. She does not seem particularly sheepish about that. For some of these people, they can hide their assets, but Trump’s are publicly known. I can’t say what will happen, but there’s some teeth to this one. And Trump couldn’t argue with the damages amount because he’d risk losing one of his other cases that hinges on his assets’ worth.
