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        Disregarding everything else, it is plain bizarre that he is allowed to keep and keep and keep trying to get a different outcome.

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          It is absolutely insane that he never got slapped with the title of vexatious litigant at some point in the many decades he was doing this before Obama made that one joke that doomed us all 🫠

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          America was founded by tobacco companies and people so weird about religion, they were told to leave Europe even though mass communication wasn’t invented yet and they probably could have just been slightly less weird a kilometer away. Our justice system was probably always going to favor disgraced sex pests.

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      Yes, because he keeps challenging it, and every time it is re-established that he did indeed rape this woman.

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      At worst, he is paying $87 million / $5 billion ~ 2% his net worth to rape kids

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        The thing is, for him, it’s a great deal. He pays almost nothing of his net worth to do what he loves to do, rape those kiddies.
        But he’s so fucking stupid that if he Biff Tannen’d himself back to the eighties in a Delorean and offered himself this fantastic deal, he would refuse it. The paedo is a fucking dunce.

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    A jury found that then-President Trump acted with common law malice when he made defamatory statements about Carroll in June 2019 and awarded compensatory and punitive damages. Trump appeals, arguing that he is entitled to presidential immunity or, in the alternative, a new trial.

    He wasn’t president when he made those statements in June 2019.

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      It’s wild that this has 4 upvotes and 0 downvotes at the time of writing. Trumps first presidency ran from 2017 to 2021. People will upvotes anything that sounds good to them.

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      It is still hard to believe, but yes, he has been president twice now, the first time was indeed during 2019. It is also sometimes hard to believe 2019 was long enough ago that there have been multiple president changes since then.

      But if you’ll recall, Trump was president when Covid 19 started. He ignored and then downplayed it for so long that he is largely responsible for a huge portion of the americans it killed. And due to how out of control it got, and to a degree still is, especially lately since it is back on the rise now, potentially also responsible for a decent portion of the non-americans it has killed too. He shares that with a lot of other terrible leaders though.

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      I think you meant to say it was a private affair (from far before his presidency) and therefore not a presidential action that he made remarks.

      But Trump wants his powers to work retroactively as well, so anything in the past can be wiped off his slate as long as he remarks about it while being president.