President Donald Trump is complaining to a federal court about the millions of dollars he was recently forced to pay out in the long-running defamation case brought and won by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Now, with the money already in Carroll’s possession, Trump’s legal team is alleging that Carroll’s legal team misled the court.
“While the funds remained safely in CRIS, counsel assured this Court that they would be placed in an ‘interest-bearing account,’” the reply brief goes on. “After securing possession, Plaintiff disclosed that the funds were instead placed in a personal investment account for her retirement—and invoked the S&P 500 to justify keeping them there. That was not a clarification. It was a bait-and-switch on the precise assurance used to resist judicial intervention.”
I still can’t get over the President of the USA being a convicted rapist
Ah, so… “Convicted of rape” is a legal term for criminal court. Both “convicted” and “rape” carry legal definitions distinct from the civil version “found liable for sexual assault.”
I know it’s splitting hairs, but that’s what lawyers do.
Civil court cannot impose jail time and does not have a criminal component. Proceedings for each can be had with separate outcomes. Prime example, OJ Simpson. Not guilty of murder, but found liable for death.
Stupid as fuck.
Adjudicated rapist.
Rapist will do.
Agreed.
I’ll grant you your point for convicted, but not rape. We’re not talking in a legal context. The form of sexual assault he was found liable for was very much rape by the standard definition, which is more the correct definition than the legal one.
There could have been a criminal referral in Trump’s case, if not for the statute of limitations.