Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case | CNN Politics - eviltoast

Wow, someone actually finally managed to force Trump to pay a bill.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    He’s not playing 4D chess. This isn’t some master plan. He is appealing because his choices are:

    • Appeal, put the bond up, hope he can stall for a while and maybe something comes up, probably loose later
    • Accept the verdict, loose now and either;
      • Pay the judgement
      • Refuse to pay the judgement and have people who cannot be threatened, bullied or argued with come seize assets
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      8 months ago

      I’m more referring to whoever’s enabling this by doing his bond for him, how do they expect to be paid back? He’s lost the 2 (maybe 3) battles of this “war” already

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        8 months ago
        • $90 million isn’t that much money if you are a large company and want the president of the US to owe you a favour.
        • The CEO of Chubb had a pretty cushy white house role under trump, maybe this is a favour being repaid at the expense of Chubbs shareholders

        Either way, most other countries call this corruption