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Only in America can denying an event took place can count as defamation.Back to the topic thread - Donald Trump legal issues in particular Jean Carroll defamation case.
Last year Jean Carroll successfully sued Trump for defamation. A civil jury accepted that she had been sexually abused by Donald Trump and that when he accused her of being a liar, that he never knew the woman, that she was just a nut case - he was defaming her.
Jean Carroll was awarded $5m in the first defamation trial.
This result sent Trump into a town hall attack where he repeated and re repeated the same defamatory lies about Jean Carroll. It was clear the defamation result was insufficient to stop Donald Trump from insisting he did nothing/Jean was a liar/ and so on. So she took him back to court for repeating the defamations. A new jury awarded damages of $83m against Donald Trump for his actions.
Trump declared he would appeal the new decision. He has just posted a $92 million bond to allow him appeal rights.
So what does Trump do next ? He comes out in Georgia and defames Jean Carroll again and again.
At a rally in Georgia on Saturday night, Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on writer E. Jean Carroll that may hand the New York writer's lawyers reason to file a new lawsuit against him as well as kill the $92 million appeals bond he just posted on Friday.
Appearing with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," legal analyst Lisa Rubin was stunned at the former president creating new problems for himself after the judge in the two trials gave Carroll's attorneys the option of opposing the bond.
The jails are chock full of inmates denying that they ever committed a crime.
Mick