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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January.

Campaigning at a rally in Rome, Georgia, Trump referenced the $91.6 million bond he posted on March 8, three days before his deadline to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in statements he made as president after denying her accusation that he’d raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Carroll first came forward in 2019 with sexual assault claims against Trump before another civil trial in May 2023, where a New York jury found that the former president sexually abused Carroll but didn’t rape her.

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 45 points 8 months ago

Speedrun any% losing all your money like a fucking moron, haha. He just can't resist talking about her. She's gonna be the one to take him down, lol.

[-] eldoom@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago

Well what with the whole Republican party gearing up to pay all his court stuff might as well take them all down eventually.

100% wishful thinking I know.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 8 months ago

That would require literally everyone involved to be impossibility stupid. The only way that could possibly work is if every single GOP politician had the intelligence of a spoilt grape fruit. What I'm saying is that I expect the GOP to be liquidated by this time next year.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Sadly while there are certainly plenty of absolute dumbasses in the GOP, and every one of them is a shitstain that barely qualifies as a human being, there are quite a few of them that are incredibly conniving. If they spent half as much effort trying to actually improve the world as they spent trying to rat fuck everyone for their own profit most problems would have been solved by now. While this will certainly hurt them badly I expect enough of the cockroaches will skitter away that this won't actually destroy the GOP..

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

They don't care what happens to the party as long as they personally profit. If they gave a fuck about their own party they wouldn't have allowed the Tea Party dumbasses in, let alone Donald.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 8 months ago

It would be hilarious if Trump bankrupted the GOP.

Probably won't get that far, but if nothing else it means they have less money to spend on all the smaller local candidate races, which are arguably mode impactful long-term.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

Statues should be built in her honor. Fucking hero.

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