The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.
According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.
JUST IN: Trump demands gas retailers cut prices immediately:
“Drop your price” or face “big problems.”
Sounds like something a communist leader would say
JUST IN: Trump demands gas retailers cut prices immediately:
“Drop your price” or face “big problems.”
Sounds like something a communist leader would say
Here is just a small portion of what the district judge said in one of his meticulous opinions discussing and explaining and denying Trump's post-trial motions:
“The proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm.
“Mr. Trump’s argument [against the damages award] therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets the jury’s verdict, and mistakenly focuses on the New York Penal Law definition of “rape” to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in everyday life and of the evidence of what actually occurred between Ms. Carroll and Mr. Trump.
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“The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of ‘rape’ in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere.
“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.
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“The definition of ‘rape’ in the New York Penal Law—which the jury was obliged to apply in responding to Question 1 on the verdict form—requires forcible penetration of the victim’s vagina *by the accused’s penis.*
Accordingly, the jury’s negative answer to Question 1 means only that the jury was unpersuaded that Mr. Trump’s penis penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina. It does not mean that he did not forcibly insert his fingers into her—that he ‘raped’ her in the broader sense of that word which, as discussed above, includes any penetration by any part of an accused’s body (including a finger or fingers) or any other object.
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“The trial evidence of the harm to Ms. Carroll as a result of being assaulted and digitally raped supports the jury’s $2 million award as reasonable compensation for her pain and suffering. Ms. Carroll testified in detail with respect to the physical, emotional, and psychological injury she suffered after the incident with Mr. Trump. She expressed that in ‘the seconds, the minutes following [the assault] . . . my overwhelming thought was I had died and was somehow still alive.’ She testified that when she called Ms. Birnbach immediately after the assault, ‘I had not processed it. I had not processed what was going on. I felt the hand jammed, and I felt the back of my head hurting.’ The night of the assault, she testified ‘[m]y head hurt, my vagina felt pain.’ In relation to the specific act of being digitally raped, Ms. Carroll testified that it was ‘extremely painful,’ ‘a horrible feeling,’ ‘unforgettable,’ and that the day after the assault she ‘felt [her] vagina still hurt from his fingers.’”
“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard troops as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.