So much for Donald Trump “getting away” with it
In his first civil trial against E. Jean Carroll, Donald Trump lost $5 million. That would be a lot of money for most people, but not for someone who’s using a phantom presidential campaign to cover his legal costs. In his second civil trial against E. Jean Carroll, Trump lost a stunning $83.3 million. That’s the kind of sum that Trump may not be able to cover, no matter who or what he tries to tap.
So what changed from the first trial to the second? They both arose out of the same scandal, the same series of events, and they both concluded with the same findings. Why did the jury in the second trial end up awarding more than forty times as much as the first jury did?
Remember when Trump lost the first trial and then kept attacking Carroll? Remember when this trial kicked off, and Trump ramped up his attacks on Carroll? At the time, I said that Trump wasn’t getting away with any of it. Instead it was more like a running meter. Each time Trump went at it again, he was likely costing himself even more money.
The jury in this trial has thus far remained anonymous, and we may never hear from them about why they ratcheted the damages so sky high. But it’s a darn good guess that they did it partly because Trump kept attacking Carroll. And now Trump, the king of debt, has to come up with more than $80 million or else his assets will be taken from him. He did this to himself.
We’ve now seen in three civil trials – two against Carroll and one against Letitia James – that Donald Trump just keeps losing. He can’t stop any of this from happening to him. His nasty social media posts, his nuisance filings, and his attorneys’ silly courtroom antics aren’t helping him in any way. It all just keeps adding up to loss after loss for him. It’ll be the same with his criminal trials. His downfall is something he can’t stop. He’s going broke, and then he’s going to prison.
