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2026-05-13 Government Corruption

Appeals court spares Trump from paying $83 million defamation award to E Jean Carroll ‐ for now

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1 PayPal to pay $30 million fine for favoring African American-owned businesses

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-05-13 00:24|| 2026-05-13 00:24|| Front Page Top

2 Trump was refused to introduce evidence of the plaintiff's history of false rape accusations. He was denied true due process.

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3 What if everything Trump said was true? It’s not really defamatory if it’s the truth.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-05-13 10:33|| 2026-05-13 10:33|| Front Page Top

4 It was obvious, at least to me, that the Jean Carroll allegations were made up and supported by an activist judge.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2026-05-13 14:34|| 2026-05-13 14:34|| Front Page Top

5 Ace of Spades this morning:"Appeals Court Rules That Trump Doesn't Have to Pay Lunatic Fantasist E. Jean Carroll for the "Defamation" of Continuing to Deny This Vicious Fruitloop's Sex Fantasy About Him

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Not only was the original allegation of "rape" insane and ripped off straight from an episode of Law & Order: SVU -- with this lunatic attention-whore unable to even say when the "rape" occurred more specifically than "in the nineties" -- but a subsequent New York jury also decided it was "defamation" when Trump later insisted upon his innocence.

Note that this rule has never been applied to anyone except Donald Trump. Any time a man proclaims his innocence following an adverse court ruling, someone can sue that man for "defamation" for denying his or her story.

And note that every instance of a false claim is a fresh defamation case -- so you can just keep suing an innocent man forever, for saying he's innocent.

This is government-compelled speech of the worst kind: When a partisan jury wrongly finds you culpable, not only do you have to pay the exorbitant penalty they impose on you for partisan bullshit reasons, but you are then compelled by government action to admit the lie of your guilt, forever, anytime someone asks you about it.

An Appeals Court has agreed with Trump that he should not have to pay the insane jackpot $83 million judgment until the Supreme Court rules on this preposterous new Trump-Only Law.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week temporarily blocked an $83 million dollar payment that President Donald Trump owed to E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case while the Supreme Court mulls intervening.
The court order granted Trump's request for a stay, provided he increase his bond by nearly $7.5 million.

Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room some time in the 1990s. She brought separate legal claims for defamation over his denials while in office and after leaving.

Separate -- every time he denies this floridly insane woman's preposterous story, it's a fresh defamation claim."

https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1750606491382317239

https://ace.mu.nu/

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